I. UPDATE ON PATRICK MORGAN AND PAT JOHNSON
\nII. THE PASSING OF DOCTOR ART DAVIS<\/p>\n
I. We have a correction for the address of the Patrick Morgan service on July 11th.<\/p>\n
His funeral service will be Saturday, August 11th at 10:00 AM, at the Harrison
\nRoss Funeral Home located at 4601 S. Crenshaw Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90043.<\/p>\n
If you plan to attend, please leave a message at (818) 386-9920.<\/p>\n
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PAT JOHNSON CELEBRATION CONCERT<\/p>\n
While Pat Johnson\u2019s Funeral Service will be private, there will be a memorial Celebration on August 19th.<\/p>\n
A Celebration Concert of Pat Johnson’s life will be held on
\nSunday August 19th
\nstarting at 3 pm<\/p>\n
The location is Bishop Alemany High School USC Thornton School of Music Condolences can be sent to Tommy and Pat’s daughter Jennifer at: ————<\/p>\n II. LA TIMES OBITIARY FOR DR. ART DAVIS <\/p>\n Last week, on August 3rd, we lost a true friend in Dr. Art Davis.<\/p>\n Here is an excerpt from his Obituary in the LA Times.<\/p>\n Art Davis, 73; known for mastery of the bass, also was a psychologist Art Davis, the renowned double bassist who played with John Coltrane and Davis, a player whom jazz critic Nat Hentoff once described as “an Known for his stunning and complete mastery of the instrument, Davis Pianist Ahmad Jamal once dubbed Davis the “forgotten genius” because With less work coming his way, Davis returned to school and in 1981 earned “I went up against the big power people and lost 10 years of my life. I feel As a result of his lawsuit and protest, Davis played a key role in the increased The accomplished musician also pioneered a fingering technique for the bass In addition to his son Kimaili of Oak Park, Davis is survived by son Mureithi ————-<\/p>\n Until next time,<\/p>\n THE COMMITTEE FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE LOCAL 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I. UPDATE ON PATRICK MORGAN AND PAT JOHNSON II. THE PASSING OF DOCTOR ART DAVIS I. We have a correction for the address of the Patrick Morgan service on July 11th. His funeral service will be Saturday, August 11th at 10:00 AM, at the Harrison Ross Funeral Home located at 4601 S. Crenshaw Blvd. Los […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-committee-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nin the Banquet Room
\n11111 N. Alemany Drive
\nMission Hills, CA.
\nYou can make donations to the “Patricia Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund”. Checks should be made out to:<\/p>\n
\n840 W. 34th St.
\nMusic Office 408
\nLos Angeles, CA 90089. <\/p>\n
\njbellusci@makeviolinmagic.com <\/p>\n
\nBy Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer
\nAugust 4, 2007<\/p>\n
\nother jazz greats, was blacklisted in the 1970s for speaking up about racism
\nin the music industry, and then later in life earned a doctorate in clinical
\npsychology and balanced performance dates with appointments to see
\npatients, has died. He was 73. <\/p>\n
\nastonishing player” and “beyond category,” died of a heart attack
\nSunday at his home in Long Beach, said his son Kimaili Davis. <\/p>\n
\nwas able to genre-hop comfortably. He played with a long and varied
\nlist of artists: Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
\nLouis Armstrong, Judy Garland, John Denver, the trio Peter, Paul and
\nMary and Bob Dylan, and was described as Coltrane\u2019s favorite bassist.<\/p>\n
\nthe outspoken bassist had been blacklisted for many years. Davis’ decision
\nto take a stand against racism was born of his experiences in music.<\/p>\n
\na doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University. Davis was
\nfor many years a practicing psychologist while also working as a musician. <\/p>\n
\nvindicated [through his court case], and I wouldn’t be a Dr. Art Davis if it
\nhadn’t happened,” he told Double Bassist. <\/p>\n
\n use of the so-called blind audition, in which musicians are heard but not seen
\nby those evaluating them, Hentoff said.<\/p>\n
\nand wrote “The Arthur Davis System for Double Bass.” <\/p>\n
\nDavis of Tustin and daughter Taisha Jack of Culver City. Davis’ wife, Gladys,
\ndied in 1995.<\/p>\n