DON BLACKMAN

PIANIST/SINGER/WRITER MY NAME IS DON BLACKMAN,I WAS BORN 1953 IN QUEENS,NEW YORK GREW UP SURROUNDED BY JAZZ INFLUENCES;A COUSIN WAS McPHERSON--A CHARLIE PARKER DISCIPLE-- WAS MY NEIGHBOR. I PLAYED WITH McPHERSON'S GROUP IN 1968 ALONGSIDE SAM JONES AND LOUIS HAYES WHEN HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD I SWITCHED TO ELECTRIC PIANO AND TOURED WITH PARIARMENT/FUNKADELLIC IN THE EARLY '70s I LATER BECAME AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF LENNY WHITE'S TWENNYNINE ("PEANUT BUTTER") A KEY PIECE IN JAMAICA QUEENS 70 JAZZ-FUNK EXPLOSION. A DEAL WITH GRP/ ARISTA BIRTHED THE SOLO LP DON BLACKMAN (1982), A GOOD SET SADDLED BY POOR PROMOTION MY RESUME INCLUDES KURTIS BLOW SESSION AND SINGING "HABOGLABOTRIN" ON BERNARD WRIGHT'S ALBUM A FIXTURE IN NEW YORK STUDIOSI WORKED ON SESSION FOR A LONG LIST OF ARTIST INCLUDING NAGEE, DAVID SANBORN,AND ROY AYERS, AND HIS COMPOSITION "LIVE TO KICK IT TU-PAC'S R U STILL DOWN (REMEMBER ME)RELEASE ANDREW HAMILTON ALL MUSIC GUIDE