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Most people simply called David Newman, who died Jan. 20 at 75, "Fathead," a name dating back to high school years in his native Texas. He didn't consider it an insult. The moniker came from a band teacher who, after seeing Newman's music sheets sitting upside down on his stand, thumped him on the head and yelled, "Fathead!" Apparently, Newman preferred to learn music...
...with the piano, so did 'Fathead' with the tenor sax, on some of the greatest records ever," Joe Cocker, a British rock and blues musician Newman once recorded with, says...
...local color and the telling detail. The cast is terrific from top to bottom--Kerry Washington as Charles' wife; Regina King and Aunjanue Ellis as his singer-concubines; Sharron Warren as his tough-love mama; Clifton Powell as his friend and roadie; Bokeem Woodbine as sexy sax man David (Fathead) Newman. If there were an Oscar for ensemble acting, Ray would win in a stroll...
...dynamite cover of Sy Oliver?s ?Yes Indeed.? Listeners came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David ?Fathead? Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted to express unmitigated joy. In Charles? gravelly vocals, joy sounds like the residue of a lifetime of pain. It?s not what?s been gained; it?s what...
...strings. It was blues, all right, but (like so much other Atlantic music of the period) with a Latin accent, thanks to great cymbal, conga and stick work by Milt Turner. It featured his urgent vocal, but not until almost 50 seconds into the song. And where was Fathead?s mandatory solo? Withheld; he played the final choruses, behind the Raelets, on part ". The complex simplicity of the number made it seem both roughhouse and pristine...