Preston Love

Preston Love ( born April 26, 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska, † February 12, 2004 ) was an American musician ( saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter ) in the area of rhythm and blues and jazz.

Love began 15 years playing the saxophone; at 22 he was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. From the late 1940s and in the 1950s he toured the Midwest of the United States in the territory bands of Nat Towles and Lloyd Hunter before he recorded with his own bands for Federal Records and King Records ( Blues In The Night ). He also worked with Johnny Otis, who produced on Dig Records singles and some of the few albums Loves under his own name, as in 1969 Omaha Bar -BQ. In the early 1960s he moved to California, where he worked among others with Ray Charles and finally as a session musician for Motown Records. In the 1990s, he toured the United States and Europe; He also taught and worked as an author. He died in early 2004 from lung cancer.