He was a composer, bandleader, producer, arranger, publisher, and label owner—and arguably one of the best double bassists who ever lived, with long-running gigs backing Count Basie and Ramsey Lewis. | ✍️ Steve Krakow
features White on drums again , and Eaton displays his versatility on the groovy “Love Song” and the freaky, progressive “Gemini Rising,” where he uses bowed double bass to create pure textures. The album topped thewould be Eaton’s last album with Lewis, but by then the bassist had already started his own labels and his own funk-fusion bands. He’d launched the short-lived E&C Records in 1969, followed by Cle-An-Thair Records in the early 70s.
For several years, Eaton kept one foot in Chicago and the other in Birmingham, and he released two late-70s albums on Ovation that illustrate this neatly.in ’79 both feature a band he called the Garden of Eaton, but it was made up of Birmingham players on the first and Chicago players on the second. In 1978 Eaton reissued the slappin’ disco track “Bama Boogie Woogie” via UK-based label Gull Records, better known for releasing records by Arthur Brown and Judas Priest.
Eaton was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in ’79, and the ceremony was one of the few times he performed with Sun Ra—Eaton looked up to his fellow inductee as a genius, as any adventurous jazz musician should. He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2008. Eaton beat oral cancer in 2008 and prostate cancer 2010, and later in the 2010s he survived a heart blockage. But on July 5, 2020, he passed away peacefully at home after a period of hospitalization and decline. He left behind three sons and three daughters , nine grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
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