Lou Caputo RIP

[sgcim]

Sadly, just after he posted a story about Bird's birthday on Facebook, the Alto/Tenor sax player Lou Caputo suffered a fatal heart attack. I knew he had had a heart attack a long time ago, but had been doing well since then.

He recorded a few albums with his own small big band, which worked a lot in NYC. He hired some great arrangers to write charts for the band, and he played lead alto and all the alto solos on them. I was used to hearing him on tenor on all the hundreds of gigs I did with him, but he was a fantastic alto player, out of the Bird/Phil Woods school:

http://loucaputo.com/about/

RIP. old friend...