RIP Pete Cosey

Best known for his playing with Miles Davis from 1973-75 (Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea, Get Up With It and a million bootlegs), he also played on Muddy Waters' Electric Mud and After the Rain (which is a better album, IMO), Howlin' Wolf's The Howlin' Wolf Album (aka "This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album") and a bunch of other stuff. In more recent years, he guested with Burnt Sugar on a few albums and had a band called Children of Agharta in which he re-interpreted '70s Miles work. An amazing guitarist with a totally unique sound.

Awww, shame, great player. RIP Pete.

Just heard about this. Really really fucking sad.

http://www.thelastmiles.com/gfx/interviews/pete-cosey/miles-band-pete-cosey.jpg

He's the guy sitting down right?

http://www.thelastmiles.com/gfx/interviews/pete-cosey/_MG_3177.jpg

Oh man, RIP. He played on some of my favorite Miles live stuff.

yeah such a cool player, always pushing it to the outer reaches. anyone know why he dropped out of the music biz for so long? seems like a shame that there aren't more recordings of him post-Miles.

WTF STOP DYING AWESOME PEOPLE

this is the worst month ever

love this dude, the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, the Miles stuff, the Cadet Records stuff arggghghghghghghgh so bummed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmYz5ruHvsU
extremely dodgy quality video, but cool anyway -- pete cosey, dave liebman, michael henderson visiting miles' old house.

Awww. RIP

whoa no

http://www.thelastmiles.com/interviews-pete-cosey.php
good interview -- would be cool if there was a comp of cosey's chess session work. seems like there's a ton of it.

RIP. So great on Agharta.

Ahh shit. His stuff with Miles just rips - criminally overlooked player.

underrated cadet concept jam here: http://www.discogs.com/John-Klemmer-Blowin-Gold/release/634425

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/05/30/chicago-guitar-genius-pete-cosey-dead-at-68

RIP

WTF STOP DYING AWESOME PEOPLE

this is the worst month ever

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier)

thx for reminder about that John Klemmer, been mentioned here before but I never tracked it down. what a weird album

holy shit, didn't know that was Cosey on that album - I thought it was Larry Coryell for some reason

Cosey performed on the albums Get Up with It, Dark Magus, Agharta and Pangaea

man played on four of my all-time fave recs right there. rip

honestly i didn't know he was still alive

he did have a little late career thing -- the children of agharta band, an appearance on that Miles In India record from a few years back.

RIP