I first really tuned-in to Billy on Hank Mobley's album Dippin'. In the early 1990's I had the great fortune to see him with Cedar and David Williams for several nights during their residencies at the Milestones Club in San Francisco.
Here are two radio recordings I made of that Cedar Walton Trio around the same time...
I was lucky enough to see Billy Higgins a few times at Slugs in late 60’s when he played with Lee Morgan, was on my way there the night Lee Morgan was shot.
I first really tuned-in to Billy on Hank Mobley's album Dippin'. In the early 1990's I had the great fortune to see him with Cedar and David Williams for several nights during their residencies at the Milestones Club in San Francisco.
Here are two radio recordings I made of that Cedar Walton Trio around the same time...
https://archive.org/details/cedar-walton-trio-1988-kjaz-sees-sunday-night
https://archive.org/details/cedar-walton-trio-1989-yoshis-berkeley-kjaz
And one of the Timeless All-Stars...
https://archive.org/details/timeless-all-stars-berkeley-jazz-festival-1989-kjaz
The fine young jazz drummer Hank Allen-Barfield told me "Billy Higgins is my favorite drummer ever!" So Billy's legacy lives on.
It’s such a pleasure to read jazz writing where the prose itself is coherent with the beauty of the music it describes.z
Played guitar and sang too.
I was lucky enough to see Billy Higgins a few times at Slugs in late 60’s when he played with Lee Morgan, was on my way there the night Lee Morgan was shot.