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Originally Posted by Liad Bar-EL  Bryan Edgett's weekend with Leon Merian
> > Leon will be 79 in a few weeks. I could only wonder how many folks
> > who faced the illnesses and the surgery that Leon faced at that point
> > in life would have loved music enough to get back into the kind of
> > shape necessary to play as he played?
> > Bryan Edgett |
Leon just celebrated his 83rd birthday, he is a product of the old school. He paid his dues.
Get his book "The Man Behind the Horn," it will give you a very good idea of what it was to be a trumpet player in the big bands of the past.
Wilmer