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Composed by Kevin Dean Kevin Dean - Trumpet Al Mclean - Saxophone Mike Rud - Guitar Dave Watts - Bass The last in a suite of four short films, 'Pops' is a moving visual and sonic Eulogy to the father of Jazz trumpeter Kevin Dean. Rich Dean was an Iowa farmer, who prized education, music and the arts as much or more as agriculture. Noted hard-bop trumpeter Kevin Dean thumbs through photos, and remembers the farm house jam sessions that shaped his ideas about Jazz. Rich Dean passed not long after his son penned this ballad for him, and Kevin Dean remembers playing through the tune with his father on their last visit. 'Pops' was filmed in an early 20th Century Montreal church with perhaps the finest acoustics in the city. The Neo-Gothic ambiance inside the building soaks into the music here, with moody, nuanced performances on the Dean original. To read the Des Moins Register obituary on Richard Dean click here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/desmoinesregister/obituary.aspx?n=richard-dean&pid=152308269 To read the Iowa Globe Gazette obituary on Richard Dean, click here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/globegazette/obituary.aspx?n=richard-wendell-dean&pid=152303011 And here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/desmoinesregister/obituary.aspx?n=richard-dean&pid=152308269 Filmed by Randy Cole and CaroH Edited by Randy Cole Sound by Paul Johnston Makeup by Ariane Lemire
