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Notes for Howard Pyle WYETH
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Saturday, March 30, 1996
Deceased Name: HOWARD WYETH, DRUMMER WHO PERFORMED WITH DYLAN
Howard Pyle Wyeth, a rock drummer and jazz pianist best known for working with Bob Dylan in the mid-1970s, has died in New York City, where he lived.
Mr. Wyeth, 51, died Wednesday night in a hospital. The cause was reported to be cardiac arrest
The grandson of the artist N.C. Wyeth and the nephew of Andrew Wyeth, Mr. Wyeth studied percussion with Alan Abel of the Philadelphia Orchestra and graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from Syracuse University in 1966. He moved to New York City in 1969.
He toured in 1975-76 with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, an informal, constantly changing all-star tour that included Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and others. The tour was also filmed for the movie "Renaldo and Clara."
Mr. Wyeth played drums on two albums with Dylan: "Desire" and "Hard Rain." He also performed on four albums by the rockabilly revivalist Robert Gordon and on albums by Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, Leslie West, Kinky Friedman, James Moody and others.
More recently, he concentrated on piano, leading his own groups in ragtime, blues and early jazz at New York clubs.
He is survived by his companion of 17 years, Catherine Wheeler, and by four brothers, John, David, Convers and Andrew
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