Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Lluis, it's rather a strange coincidence that I started scanning them just 1 day before I read in the local paper that it was his 100th birthday, I had forgotten it - I last saw him 20 years ago in 1989. Best regards from Hannover Douglas Lluis Ripoll wrote: > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Lluis Ripoll > luisripoll at telefonica.net > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ > http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll > Blog: > http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ > > http://www.lrmusic.es > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >