just found out about this! only 52 too.
i had a lot of fun watching hiram play with the gil evans orchestra at sweet basil in the 80's. lots of good memories.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 August 2008 09:21 (seventeen years ago)
Died of throat cancer :-(((
Remember being v. impressed by him when he gigged in London as part of both the Gil Evans and Carla Bley bands. Imaginative and exuberant but never cliched and didn't really get the wider recognition he deserved. RIP.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 1 August 2008 09:29 (seventeen years ago)
aw man. i saw him play with kenwood dennard maybe six years ago, doing their jaco pastorius trio thing.
― Jordan, Friday, 1 August 2008 13:08 (seventeen years ago)