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Von Freeman RIP


david weiss

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I think it was 1996 or 1997 in the winter time and I was attending the Housewares show in Chicago and maybe that was the year I was able to see Eight Bold Souls at Hot House but there was one guy besides Fred Anderson that I was determined to see live when I visited Chicago and that was Von Freeman...

well I think it was at The Apartment and I know the pianist was John Young and I know they had a singer for later in the set.

I remember him warming up and not hearing too much and *then* when they started I remember the SOUND, the SOUND of a guy who plays the damn tenor saxophone his whole life and nothing ever mattered more than playing the tenor saxophone.

We know it when we hear it.

and then all I remember is that the first tune was a mid tempo bles thing and I remember the SOUND live when he started to HIT it and I remember he blew my mind for about 15 minutes straight up and that's all I remember as knew I heard a giant of the tenor saxophone and I was blessed to be within 10 feet of the bell of his horn.

as Uli will surely post on the other board if he is up to it.....

RIP Sir!

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Chris Sheridan (liners to "Young and Foolish") also has 1922 as year of birth. Not that I knew, not that it really matters ...

I brought it up because I expect and trust serious newspapers like the Chicago Tribune to give the correct info. They said he was 88, while my sources say 89.

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