FILE-Bill Lee and Spike Lee attend the 25th anniversary screening of"Do The Right Thing" in 2014. Bill Lee, a well-regarded jazz musician who accompanied such artists as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Belafonte as well as scoring four of his son Spike’s early films, including the hit "Do the Right Thing" and two songs for "Jungle Fever," has died. He was 94.
Lee was a session bassist who has played on albums by Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker and Peter, Paul and Mary, among many others. He can be heard on Dylan’s "It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue" and Lightfoot’s "Oh, Linda." He played on Aretha Franklin’s Columbia album debut in 1960, "Aretha."
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