Invoice Lee, the jazz musician who performed with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin and was the daddy of Spike Lee, has died aged 94.
The musician died at his Brooklyn dwelling yesterday (Could 24), in line with a publicist for Spike Lee, confirmed to The New York Instances. No explanation for loss of life was revealed.
The composer and bassist scored the music for 4 of Spike’s earlier movies together with 1989’s Do The Proper Factor and songs on 1991’s Jungle Fever.
All through his profession, the session bassist carried out with artists like Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Belafonte, additionally that includes on recorded albums with Odetta, Cat Stevens, Woody Guthrie and extra.
A few of his most notable musical appearances embrace Dylan’s ‘It’s All Over Now, Child Blue’ on which he performed guitar and harmonica, and Franklin’s 1961 debut ‘Aretha’.
Lee additionally composed his son’s movies together with She’s Gotta Have It (1986), Faculty Daze (1988) and Mo’ Higher Blues (1990).
Spike Lee has since posted a collection of tributes to his Instagram web page in reminiscence of his father, together with an image of the vinyl album cowl for the Do The Proper Factor rating.
“Stunning music lives perpetually,” he wrote in one other publish.
Figures from the leisure business prolonged their condolences to Lee, together with Kerry Washington, Terry Crews and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
“All the things I learn about jazz I acquired from my father,” Spike Lee advised The New York Instances in 1990.
”I noticed his integrity, how he was not going to play simply any form of music, regardless of how a lot cash he might make.”
Lee handed on the identical day as Tina Turner, who died peacefully on the age of 83 after a protracted sickness in her dwelling in Kusnacht close to Zurich, Switzerland”.
Final month, Belafonte – the calypso singer finest recognized for his signature track ‘Day-O (The Banana Boat Tune)’, in addition to his civil rights activism – died on the age of 96.
