[JPL] Len Dobbin

[Nou Dadoun]

It's been buzzing around the jazz community in Canada this morning,
confirmed by a Quebec blog in French quoting a member of his party at the
Upstairs Club:

http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/brunet/?p=628

A very sad day, jazz has lost a good friend ... N




On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM, david weiss <njco2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Folks, I don't know if this is confirmed or not and I would hate to start a
> false rumor but I just read this over at the organissimo board. It was
> posted by someone who is at the Montreal Festival.
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> "Sad news item to pass along, not sure if he's well known here to make a
> thread about him. Jazz writer, photograph Len Dobbin was declared
> clinically dead last night, he was at the Upstairs bar to attend the
> Felix Stussi/ Ray Anderson gig when he suddenly colapsed.
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> Len was a great friend of the jazz community, Pepper Adams even wrote a
> song in his honor titled Dobbin".
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> Can anyone confirm this?
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