Bill Lee, Bassist and Composer Spike Lee’s dad, Dies at 94

[Bad Andy]

Bill Lee, Bassist and Composer Spike Lee’s Dies, Dies at 94
By Robert D. McFadden
May 24, 2023Updated 12:28 p.m. ET
Bill Lee, a jazz bassist and composer who scored the early films of his son Spike Lee, wrote folk-jazz operas, led an acclaimed ensemble of bassists and was a prolific sideman for Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and others, died on Wednesday morning at his home in Brooklyn. He was 94.
Spike Lee confirmed the death.

 

[Lexx Diamond]

Rest in peace.

 

[respiration]

A true legend gone RIP Baba Lee.

 

[easy_b]

RIP

 

[lightbright]

Is that Spike's dad? Fix the thread title if it is


R.I.P.



.

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Rest In Peace

 

[Don Coreleone]

I had all Spike Lee's soundtracks on cassette. Bill Lee was a genius.

 

[stroka69]

RIP...

 

[World B Free]

 

[HeathCliff]

RIP

 

[World B Free]

I had all Spike Lee's soundtracks on cassette. Bill Lee was a genius.

Yeah, I used to have it on cassette too, I loved the whole soundtrack....

 

[LennyNero1972]

Man didn't know his pops was still living, RIP.

 

[World B Free]

SPIKE LEE'S ig Post, his father Bill Lee died on his son's Jackson birthday......what does that even mean? That's some vibes!!

 

[World B Free]

Spike Lee's parents, Bill and Jacqueline Shelton Lee. His mother transitioned in 1977.

 

[34real]

RIP to him.....their genes are strong cause Spike looks like his father and so does his son.

 

[slewdem100]

RIP

 

[CptMARVEL]

Thank you sir, for the music.
RIP.

 

[callbacc]

R.I.P

 

[jack walsh13]

R.I.P.

 

[peter.parker1]

R.I.P

 

[joneblaze]

I would always see him in my old neighborhood.. Was always down to earth. RIP

 

[TEN]

 

[blackman80]

RIP

 

[Onra]

RIP

 

[furlough]

R.I.P.

 

[jawnswoop]

R.I.P.

 

[HNIC]

R.I.P. to Spike's Pops

 

[OutlawR.O.C.]

R.I.P.

 

[SIDESHOW]

wow

rip

 

[dik cashmere]

RIP

 

[Mixd]

R.I.P

 

[Wobble Wobble]

Rest, Uncle Bill. A principled musician - refused to go electric.

 

[Rythm]

RIP

 

[YoungSinister]

RIP

 

[TEN]

manners and respect