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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Jack's 100th birthday
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:06:46 +0200
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Hi Douglas,

Nice pictures ad nice tribute,
Saludos
Lluis

El 22/07/2009, a las 13:10, Douglas Sharp escribi?:

> Well at least if you believe the date 23rd of July 1909 as being his  
> birthday he would have been 100 tomorrow - there are at least 3  
> other dates often published, but he used to celebrate on the 23rd of  
> July.
>
> Jack lived in Hannover from 1975until his death from cancer here on  
> 21st of January 1992. His was the first New Orleans-style funeral  
> Hannover had ever seen.
>
>
> Jack jamming with Memphis Slim
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Blues0199scan.jpg.html
>
> Joking with the audience:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Blues0200scan.jpg.html
>
> Not sure who the other guy is - Eddie something or other - chatting  
> between sets.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/CJD0195scan.jpg.html
>
> He could spend hours telling stories at the bar
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/CJD0196scan.jpg.html
>
>
> A great bluesman, a brilliant cook, a very wry sense of humour and  
> very apt to explode and get really mean at times:
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
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Lluis Ripoll
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