FRANK FOSTER - R.I.P.

The litany of accolades and the outpouring of love and respect for the man could never equal the towering legacy he left to us. To get a sense of his historical and artistic import or to simply toast his incomparable presence, check out...

These amazing interviews from 1992 and 2008...
http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/foster.html
http://www.wbgo.org/blog/interview-frank-foster-gary-walker

This heartfelt obit....
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/music/frank-foster-jazz-saxophonist-and-composer-dies-at-82.html

His legendary 1960 performance with the band that owes much of it's world renown to his creative genius...



And my favorite Frank Foster moment of all time...Jerry Lewis' priceless interpretation of Foster's swingin' composition "Blues in Hoss' Flat" with The Count Basie Orchestra providing accompaniment. It was featured in the 1961 film "The Errand Boy."


We will never forget you Frank....godspeed.