Wow. How come I never heard of that guy before? And of course, Laurindo Almeida is mentioned pretty early on.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 September 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/arts/music/bill-pitman-dead.html
102 year old Bill Pitman rip
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 August 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
saw this online elsewhere: when Spector produced the enormously popular record "Be My Baby" in 1963, he named the jam session on the flip side "Tedesco and Pitman," after two of his favorite guitar players: Tommy Tedesco and Bill Pitman...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 August 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link