Spike Lee's father, Bill Lee, a jazz bassist who played with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, died at home in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning. He was 94.
Bill Lee, a jazz bassist who played with Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin and Duke Ellington, who was also the father of filmmaker Spike Lee, died at his Brooklyn home Wednesday morning. He was 94., sharing a series of black-and-white portraits taken by younger brother David Charles Lee.
Bill Lee composed scores for several of Spike Lee’s early films, including “She’s Gotta Have It” , “School Daze” , “Do The Right Thing” and “Mo’ Better Blues” . Born William James Edwards Lee III in Snow Hill, Ala., on July 23, 1928, Bill Lee was the son of two musicians. “My learning in music started with my mother and father,” he said during
with jazz bassist Jonah Jonathan. He instilled the same love of music in some of his own children: David played piano, Joy practiced bass, Cinqué played drums, Chris took up trumpet and Spike played cello.in 1994 that his great-great-great-grandfather Mike was the defiant son of an African king and that his grandfather went to school with Booker T. Washington.COVER STORY : A Kinder, Gentler Spike? : Spike Lee has always seemed to thrive on controversy.
Spike Lee’s father, Bill, stands at the oven on the first floor of his brownstone in Fort Greene, cooking a noontime breakfast for his young son Arnold, shooing away some of their 19 cats, and talking about his family--about everyone except Spike Lee.Inspired by saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, Lee forayed into jazz, picking up his first bass while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta.
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