Richard Tee (November 24, 1943 – July 21, 1993) – Every Day (1979)
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Richard Tee (November 24, 1943 – July 21, 1993) – Every Day (1979)
The great keyboardist co-wrote this superb jam with Bill Withers.
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The great keyboardist Richard Tee was a prolific session musician who appeared on hundreds of classic soul, funk, and jazz records. He was a founding member of the supergroup Stuff in the mid-70s.
Along with the other members of Stuff (Gordon Edwards on bass guitar, Eric Gale and Cornell Dupree on guitar, and Chris Parker on drums, who was later replaced by Steve Gadd), Tee laid down an extremely funky piano solo on the group’s signature song “Stuff,” which they memorably performed live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976.
For his 1979 solo album Strokin’, produced by Bob James, Tee sang lead on the beautiful “Every Day” which he co-wrote with Bill Withers.
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My GOD! Every cut on that Montreaux album is fantastic! Thank you! Thank you!
Please do more of the great Tappan Zee/CTI/New York musicians like Eric Gale, Ralph McDonald, Gary King, Wilbert Longmire, Steve Gadd, Cornell Dupree and others that turned backup playing into magic. Just the other day I thought of Charles McCracken and Harry Lookofsky, two of the players that tipped the 'buy it!' scale when I prowled used record stores in the 80s and 90s.
So many great 70s and 80s albums never got reissued on CD in the US and haven't shown up on Spotify yet: The Writers eponymous first album and the sophomore disc All in Fun, Gap Mangione's Street Lady, Tom Scott's Blow It Out, and High Gear by Neil Larsen.