Legendary Drummer, Buddy Miles, Passes Away!

Legendary Drummer Buddy Miles passed away this Tuesday, peacefully at
his home in Austin, TX. He was (60) sixty years old. He suffered from
congestive heart failure but the official cause of death is not known.

Buddy performed with some of the greatest names in music including....

Stevie Wonder, Muddy Waters, Michael Bloomfield, Wilson Pickett, Stephen
Stills, Neil Young, David Crosby, Jack Bruce, Scott Richardson, Eric Burden, Peter Torque, Billy Gibbons, Prince, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Vaughan, Rick James, Kool and the Gang, Jr. Brown, Ike Turner, Pinetop Perkins, Jr. Wells, Koko Taylor, Johnny Taylor, Barry White, Aretha Franklin, George
Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Carlos Santana, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Billy Cox, David Bowie and others.

Buddy Miles recorded over 70 albums and performed in numerous world
tours, television commercials and videos. He is best known for his work
with Jimi Hendrix and bass player Billy Cox in Band of Gypsys.

Band of Gypsys recorded one album appropriately titled “Band of
Gypsys” in 1970 at Fillmore East in New York. Two of the songs on the
album were written by Miles. ("We Gotta Live Together" and "Changes”).

In lieu of flowers; the family has asked to please make donations to
the Jazz Foundation of America specifically in Buddy Miles' name to
assist with funeral, and other expenses at www.jazzfoundation.org ; The Jazz
Foundation of America, at 322 West 48th Street, New York, NY, 10036,
Attn.: Amy Cusma.

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