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A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
Featuring the music of David "Fathead" Newman
Duration: 6:35
Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford, another of the cadre of Ray Charles saxophonists who went on to their own fame, died on January 29. David “Fathead" Newman and Leroy “Hog" Cooper, Crawford's colleagues in the Charles band, died earlier last month. Crawford's alto, Newman's tenor and Cooper's baritone saxophones were integral to Charles's big band in the 1950s and ...
David "Fathead" Newman: Diamondhead
by Douglas Payne
Diamondhead is the ninth of David “Fathead" Newman's HighNote recordings (not the seventh, as the disc's notes state) and it's a typically enjoyable outing of soulful bop with no surprises but some exceedingly fine playing that holds up well after multiple listens. Pianist Cedar Walton is Newman's trump card here and a real asset to the ...
Jazz Giant David "Fathead" Newman Has Died
Jazz legend David “Fathead" Newman transcended peacefully at a hospital near his home in upstate New York on January 20, 2009, after a long battle with cancer. David, as he preferred to be called, attained international stardom over a long career. Born in Corsicana, Texas on February 24, 1933 and graduating from Lincoln High School in ...
David "Fathead" Newman Dies
David “Fathead” Newman succumbed to pancreatic cancer yesterday, Tuesday January 20, 2009. He was 75. We'll post additional news when we receive it. About David “Fathead" Newman David “Fathead" Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas on February 24, 1933. His family soon moved to Dallas, where they settled and David stayed through graduating Lincoln ...
Diamondhead
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Diamondhead; Can't We Be Friends?; New York State Of Mind; Cedar's Blues; My Full House; Skylark; Star Eyes; Mama-Lou; It's You Or No One.
Introducing David Newman
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Fathead; Esther's Melody; Congo Chant; Night Of Nisan; The Clincher; Yesterday; The Thirteenth Floor; Chained No More; Missy; Shiloh; Captain Buckles; Pharoah's Gold.
David "Fathead" Newman: Diamondhead
by Martin Longley
It's quite possible that David “Fathead" Newman is a soulster at heart. All three of his original compositions for this session are heavily weighed towards a breezing 1960s retro sound, awash with R&B fluids. For the rest, though, he's emphatically a jazzman, as can be heard whenever Diamondhead (to give David his new nickname) plays a ...
David "Fathead" Newman and Louis Hayes lead All Star Legends Band Performance for the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in Baltimore
Sunday March 2nd at St. Johns Church also known as “2640". On the corner of 27th. and St. Paul Street. 5pm. until 9pm. An All Star Jazz Legends Band will play a concert for the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) the First American Labor Union to allow membership to Women, Immigrants, and African-Americans. It was ...
David "Fathead" Newman's 75th Birthday Extravaganza at Iridium
by James Nichols
David “Fathead" Newman's 75th Birthday Celebration Iridium New York, New York January 24, 2008 The jazz tourist in New York can be easily disappointed. Historical 52nd street is now a palimpsest over which Times Square has imperially strewn yet more of its glitter and spectacle. But standing amidst all this ...
