Remember my grim foreboding last year? I got used to him and his cosmic music so much around me that I thought that the sound of his music was proof of him still being around--I was wrong. I mentioned him yesterday and decided to check on his life and I was floored... He was gone.....
I always called him a Singer Of A Spaces of Light. Those spaces still remain and they will--it is a testament to a true genius...
He blew everyone off stage. He was, no, he IS an Alien...and a God-sent. Allan, I'll remember you forever, I almost wrote a questionnaire for an interview with you and then...never sent it in after you graciously agreed to answer it. I was so-so close to true greatness.
Here is Frank Gambale and Allan play one of the greatest standards in Jazz and while Frank initiates (in a famous album Truth In Shredding), what Allan does blows one away into a different universe.
Allan (Pagani...) Holdsworth:
6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017
As they say, better late than never......
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