Guitarist / bassist (or bassist / guitarist) Roy Louis has been a close friend and musical colleague for almost 40 years. As I discovered, it’s not easy interviewing your long time friends, as the conversation can can very easily get sidetracked into many different cracks and crevices of shared experience. “Man, do you remember…….?”, became the common theme, only to realize, half an hour later, that we’d gone way off on a tangent. * * * * * * Roy Louis is a native of the island of Curacao (pronounced KEWR-ə-sow) formerly of the Netherlands Antilles, which has a unique … Read More
Monthly Archives: April 2014
I recently received a comment on one of my posts from last summer entitled “Sonny Stitt – “How Many Keys on the Saxophone?” from a well informed gentleman by the name of Leo Cluesmann. In my post, I detailed the experience of my encounter in 1980 with the jazz legend, saxophonist Sonny Stitt, believing, correctly as I found out, that many people who are still around had their own Stitt stories. It is obvious, using Mr. Cluesmann’s comment as an example, that even more than thirty years after his death, Stitt still elicits some strong emotions from folks. I’ll include … Read More