By Bob D’Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk |Bill Lee, a jazz bassist who recorded with Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan and was the father of filmmaker Spike Lee, died Wednesday. He was 94.
Bill Lee died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, The New York Times reported. No cause of death has been confirmed. Spike Lee confirmed his father’s death in an Instagram post.
The elder Lee, who also composed scores for his son, played double bass on recordings for Harry Belafonte, Judy Collins, Odetta, Ellington and many more, according to Rolling Stone.
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“Everything I know about jazz I got from my father,” Spike Lee told the Times in 1990. “I saw his integrity, how he was not going to play just any kind of music, no matter how much money he could make.”
Bill Lee wrote the soundtracks for Spike Lee’s first four feature films: “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986), “School Daze” (1988), “Do the Right Thing” (1989) and “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990), according to the Times. He had small parts in all but “Do the Right Thing,” the newspaper reported.
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Bill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Father of Spike Lee, Dead at 94
