For those who missed the tragic news that circulated over the weekend, drummer G. Calvin Weston—an
avant-garde jazz-funk heavyweight known for his work with Ornette
Coleman's Prime Time, the Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer and Marc Ribot, among others—lost his 18-year-old son, Dominique Weston-Wilkerson, in a hit-and-run incident in Philadelphia last Thursday.

Weston's friends and colleagues are playing a benefit concert
in Philadelphia on Wednesday night to help defray funeral costs; those
who can't attend but wish to contribute to the family's unexpected
expenses are encouraged to send donations by Thursday, May 14, via
PayPal to dominikaweston [at] gmail.com. "Please donate only if you can,"
Weston's note emphasizes.

As of now, Weston is still scheduled to play with Marc Ribot's Young Philadelphians at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Saturday, May 16.

[Posted this afternoon on The Volume.]