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Here is the complete quote; September 1987 Downbeat "auditions" section Jose Loa, 17-year-old saxophonist, was born in Lima, Peru, and now lives in Denton, TX, where he will be enrolled at North Texas State University this fall. Loa gained invaluable guidance from his father, Jorge Loa, a bandleader and clarinetist in Peru. He began piano and ear-training lessons at age four, then heard Charlie Parker on "Cool Blues" and decided to switch to sax. Last summer he spent time in New York City studying the instrument with Arthur Blythe and Joe Henderson. Loa has won the Allegre Award (roughly equivalent to the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award) at the Lima Jazz Festival, and he has performed with his father's orchestra, The Cruzan Kings. He now plays with various bands in Dallas, including the salsa band La-Forza. Loa, who credits his friend and fellow saxist James Farnsworth with encouraging him to move to the US, practices a minimum of eight hours a day. - end quote - I've only got a grainy photocopy of original article, so the Jose Loa Downbeat photo probably wouldn't be worth scanning and posting here. But he looks pretty angry in the photograph. And my first organissimo post in four years has nothing to do with Ellington, Coltrane, or Shorter, but saxophone legend Jose Loa! Viva Jose!

I sent you an e-mail about the Walker set five or six days ago. Did it go through? Jdw

I've got one extra ticket to Wayne Shorter (June 21 in Vancouver) that I'd like to find a home for. It's a 2nd row ticket... Anyone interested, contact me at jwalasko@telus.net ASAP. Thanks John Vancouver BC