Bassist and composer Charles Fambrough passed away on New Year’s Day at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
During his nearly 40 year professional career, Fambrough performed and recorded with numerous bands, most famously Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, as well as Grover Washington, Jr., McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Airto Moreira, Shirley Scott, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk to name only a few. At the time of his death, he led his band Charles Fambrough’s All Star Group.
On New Year’s Eve, Jim Wilke broadcast “Auld Lang Syne,” “Webb City” and “One By One” by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded live at the old University Avenue Jazz Alley which featured Fambrough along with Wynton and Branford Marsalis.
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Charles Fambrough with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: