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Jazz Guitarist Eddie Diehl – RIP
June 22, 2017 admin Blog, News 0
Jazz Guitar Life laments the passing of Jazz Guitarist Eddie Diehl, who passed away on June 20th, 2017. Sadly, I was not aware of Eddie and only found out about him when I noticed a few Facebook statuses from Vic Juris, Royce Campbell and David O’Rourke mentioning that he had passed. There were a few YouTube videos posted as well which I checked out immediately. Turns out that Eddie was a wonderful player in the tradition of Jimmy Raney, Grant Green and George Benson. In fact, I just read that Eddie replaced Grant in Brother Jack McDuff’s Organ trio back in 1961 before being replaced by George a couple of years later! How’s that for history!!
If you would like to learn more about Eddie Diehl, then check out this YouTube link where filmmaker Bart Thrall documents Eddie’s life in a touching and very personal series of filmed interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZiS2ELlXM
If you have/had any stories of Eddie, please feel free to tell us in the comments section below.
To Eddie’s family and friends, if you’re reading this, my condolences on your loss.
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