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photo of Lou Donaldson by Giovanni Piesco
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I Thought About Lou
notice was received at the Final Arms Hotel
…………………………………………………stating simply
……………………………expect Lou soon
& the buzz began
Good gracious!
Big John and Grant grinned
each to the other
with Hammond & Gibson harmony
Baby Face Willette spread his fingers
………………………………………Here ‘Tis
the word spread
as more Blue Note mens & womens stride
………………………………………out from silhouette
in particular smiling form & shape
blues walks across the green
of this Hotel’s spacious soulful landscape
all adorned in the finery of such sound
no need to cop a plea ever with me
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Lou Donaldson died on November 1, 2024, at the age of 98
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Listen to the 1962 recording of Lou Donaldson (on alto saxophone) perform the Bob Haymes/Alan Brandt composition “That’s All,” with Tommy Turrentine (trumpet); Grant Green (guitar); Big John Patton (organ); and Ben Dixon (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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Terrance Underwood is a retired Gas Turbine Package Engineer whose career offered opportunities to work all over the world. A devoted jazz enthusiast, his first memory operating a mechanical devise was a 4-speed spindle drop record changer for his father’s collection of 78s.
Click here to read Proceeding From Behind: A collection of poems grounded in the rhythmic, relating to the remarkable, by Terrance Underwood
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.Giovanni Piesco is an Amsterdam-based photographer who since 1985 has taken photographs of the famous and the unknown. Beginning in 1990, Giovanni began taking backstage photographs of many of the great jazz musicians who played in Amsterdam’s Bimhuis, that city’s main jazz venue which is considered one of the finest in the world. Click here to be taken to an ongoing series on Jerry Jazz Musician, “The Photographs of Giovanni Piesco.” Or, click here to visit his website.
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