Talk:Howard Roberts

What's still needed
So far the biography is basically an outline of his work career. There's no mention of his family other than a final note that his wife was also interested in musical curiculum. Who were his parents? Any children? Dates of birth, death, marriage?

And, the discography needs a lot of work... which may in this case be literally never-ending, there is so much to research here. Andrewa 00:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Did some of this work - whether it is well done is up to others to decide. Having a difficult time finding Roberts' father's name. His mom's first name was Vesta. Lost the reference for the later family info which I hope to find sooner than later. THX1136 (talk) 02:36, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Sheer Mass of His Work
Anecdotes abound regarding Howard Roberts's amazing span of work. I read in a guitar magazine in the early 1980's that the great Al Caiola told Howard that he thought Howard was "the most recorded guitarist" at that time.

Howard responded, "No, Al, it's you who is the most recorded. I was on a flight in South Africa, and the music on the airplane was one of your tunes. When the flight landed and I entered the terminal, the music playing there was

another one of your tunes". Some of the Howard Roberts stories must have a factual basis. Al Caiola is still alive, I notice. Anybody know Al?

I agree that his personal life needs illumination as well. Rainbow-five (talk) 19:50, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I just cut this out
"Bobby Day ("Rockin Robin")," because the best I can find is that Barney Kessel was the guitar player that day. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:52, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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Howard A. Roberts
Lord Shango* should be cut out of the discography because it is from the Howard Roberts Singers. A choir led by a selfnamed black man in the 60s/70s. Wikipedia should not carry this mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.155.160.41 (talk) 05:05, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks - now done - that was Howard A. Roberts. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:15, 22 January 2022 (UTC)