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Click on the Images Herbie Lewis 1941–2007| October, 2007 Bassist and jazz educator Herbie Lewis, a fixture in the hard-bop scene of the ’60s and ’70s, died of cancer this past May in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 66. Lewis’s many sessions included recordings with saxophonists Harold Land, Sam Rivers, and Joe Henderson; trumpeters Eddie Harris and Freddie Hubbard; and pianists Les McCann and McCoy Tyner. His onstage work included stints with Tyner, McCann, and sax man Cannonball Adderley. As a teenager in Pasadena, California, Lewis jammed with future vibraphone star Bobby Hutcherson, reportedly convincing Hutcherson he should play vibes. In the ’60s, Lewis moved between California and New York as he did stage and studio work with McCann and Tyner and performed with jazz innovators such as saxophonist Jackie McLean, bandleader Gerald Wilson, and Hutcherson. His ’70s and ’80s sessions included dates with Spanish pianist Tete Montoliu and sax explorers Archie Schepp, Chico Freeman, and John Handy. In 1977, Lewis founded the Jazz Studies Program at San Francisco’s New College of California, where he taught for the next 15 years. He moved to the Minneapolis area in 2002, where he played gigs and festivals on an Eminence electric upright.
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