Eddie HAZELL

Eddie was one of my father's desr friends, they went to high school together. My dad wrote the liner notes on many of Eddie's albums. Eddie was my first guitar teacher when I was 12. i wish he knew that I went onto become a semi professional musician, recording my own albums and doing session guitar work for bands. He was akind dear man.

As a musician I wonder what Ed Petkus, Eddie's biographer, would say about what other singing guitarists remind him of Eddie.

I met Eddie in the late 1950's when he was playing in a little club in Syracuse and we became friends. Young women threw themselves at him, but he never did more than smile back. Then I met Naedine and saw why! My grandson is a budding guitarist and just this Christmas I played several of Eddie's albums for him. Eddie was an honest-to-goodness original. Though we haven't seen each other in several years, I feel a hole in my life to know that he's gone. My deepest sympathies to Anne and...

I'm really saddened to learn of Eddie's passing ... I was a student of his for a couple of years in the early 90's. I still play many of his arrangements and always think of him when doing so. He was very inspirational to me. I admired him greatly.

My deepest sympathies to his family.

My wife's son found the album we recorded back in the early 1960's when Eddie was playing at the Embers and gave it to me for Christmas. I had not seen it since then, went to the internet and found that Eddie had passed just a month ago. That album brought back fond memories and I had hoped to find him alive and well. So sorry to hear that he is no longer with us.
If I had not received that surprise Christmas gift that my wife's son had found amoung hundreds of old record albums,...

Dear Hazell Family, I learned how to play the guitar with uncle Eddie, i was not aware of his passing and recently learned from my mother Diane Hazell Carpenter; Eddie was her cousin, and my second cousin. I will always remember him most by his love of music and what he passed on to me. I still play today and will always remember fondly all my lessons with "uncle Eddie" as i will remember him forever!!!!!

I have one of Eddie's LPs, the one with "Mimosa", have been playing guitar and singing for some 40 years. Yeah, he had a great solo act ability if he needed to. Definitely an inspiration.

I had the pleasure of taking lessons from Eddie between 1999 and 2002- he was always the consummate professional and a stand up gentleman. I had the good fortune to do a duo date with him in Montclair and see him perform with his trio a good number of times. He was a one -of -a kind musician.

Eddie was my son's guitar teacher for many years in Pompton Plains..his legacy lives on everytime my son, now a dad, plays the guitar for his kids. He was the definitive gentleman and gentle man...a pleasure to listen to him play with his trio.
The Osur Family sends their condolences to the Hazell family