Monthly bill Lee, a very well-regarded jazz musician who accompanied these artists as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Belafonte as properly as scoring 4 of his son Spike’s early films, such as the hit “Do the Ideal Thing” and two music for “Jungle Fever,” has died. He was 94.
Lee died Wednesday at his house in Brooklyn, claimed Theo Dumont, a publicist for Spike Lee. The younger Lee posted numerous images of his father on his Instagram web page announcing the death.
Lee was a session bassist who has played on albums by Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker and Peter, Paul and Mary, amid a lot of many others. He can be listened to on Dylan’s “It’s All In excess of Now, Infant Blue” and Lightfoot’s “Oh, Linda.” He performed on Aretha Franklin’s Columbia album debut in 1960, “Aretha.”
Lee wrote the soundtracks to Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” “School Daze,” “Do the Ideal Thing” and “Mo’ Superior Blues.” Bill Lee also appeared in “Do the Ideal Factor.” Terence Blanchard took about the purpose starting up with “Jungle Fever.”
Bill Lee and Spike Lee were estranged following a slipping out in the 1990s that the father attributed to his remarriage to Susan Kaplan.
In addition to Kaplan and Spike Lee, the elder Lee is survived by his sons, David, Cinque and Arnold a daughter Joie a brother, A. Clifton Lee and two grandchildren.
