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Rest In Peace Roberta Flack, back together again with Donny Hathaway.
I was never a great fan of long 12" mixes but there were exceptions such as this ten minutes of magic. Stevie Wonder on drums and backing vocals along with Luther Vandross.
Last night I saw a clip of Roberta singing Killing Me Softly and felt a real pang of sorrow at her death. I'm at an age now when many of those in music I've loved have shuffled off this mortal coil and it hurts more every time I read of another that's gone.
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Killing Me Softly on 08:44 - Feb 25 with 379 views
Chris Jasper also died on Sunday. He officially joined the Isley Brothers in 1973 in time to record the 3+3 album which included That Lady and Summer Breeze. He sung and played keyboards for the band.
A few years later he sung the lead on Caravan Of Love by which time the band was now called Isley Jasper Isley.
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Killing Me Softly on 10:35 - Feb 25 with 285 views
Chris Jasper also died on Sunday. He officially joined the Isley Brothers in 1973 in time to record the 3+3 album which included That Lady and Summer Breeze. He sung and played keyboards for the band.
A few years later he sung the lead on Caravan Of Love by which time the band was now called Isley Jasper Isley.
Oh no, I hadn't realised that, that's sad. Now I've read that he was only diagnosed with cancer a couple of months ago.
By the way, Chris Jasper did a lot more in the Isley Brothers than just play keyboards and sing backing vocals.
In their 70s pomp he was actually the principal songwriter so he would have primarily written 'Highways of my Life', 'Harvest For The World' amongst other brilliant songs but it was decided that when the three younger members joined officially in 1973 that the songs would be credited to all six members regardless who had written it.
It was down to this tight control that the older Isleys had over the band regarding songwriting royalties, lead vocals etc that led to the younger three splitting to form Isley-Jasper-Isley.
That whole Featuring Donny Hathaway album is great, Donny died before it was released.
Yes, a good album, they'd only got the two songs together in the can (Back Together Again and another Stevie song 'You Are My Heaven') before tragically Donny took his own life.
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