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Feb 11, 2009, 9:01am

Two generations of blue note sax giants talk about the music they love. The sixth annual Portland Jazz Festival gets under way Friday, and as this year's fest coincides with the 70th birthday of legendary New York City jazz label Blue Note Records, WW talked separately with two generations of the label's most exciting players. Saxophone player Lou Donaldson, now 82, rose to prominence with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1954, and had many successful outings as a bandleader of bebop, soul jazz and downright funkiness during his combined 18 years of Blue Note [...]

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