Andrew Love (musician)

Andrew Love (musician)
Andrew Love (November 21, 1941 – April 12, 2012) was a saxophone player based in Memphis, Tennessee, best known for being a member of The Memphis Horns.
Career
Love was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and began his interest in music at the Baptist church where his father was pastor. His music education continued in high school and at Langston University in Oklahoma. He returned to Memphis in 1965 and began session work at Stax Records where he teamed up with trumpet player Wayne Jackson. The two created the signature horn sound at Stax on hit records by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and others.
After recording numerous tracks at Stax, he and Jackson incorporated themselves into The Memphis Horns and began freelancing. Love and Jackson recorded at sessions for such artists as Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley and Dusty Springfield. The duo also toured with The Doobie Brothers, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray and numerous other performers.
In 2002, Love was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease which forced his retirement the following year and his eventual death in 2012 at age 70.
Al Bell, co-owner of Stax records, said "I love saxophone players, and I have many saxophone players I admire and hold in high esteem. But I have never heard a saxophone player who affects and penetrates me like Andrew Love. It was the spirit in him, and you could feel it in the music. He could arouse your deepest emotions, but he would do it gently, softly. It was like he was making love to your soul."
Discography
With Luther Allison
Live in Chicago (Alligator, 1995 [1999])
With Otis Redding
Pain in My Heart (Atco Records, 1964)
The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Atco Records, 1965)
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Stax Records, 1965)
The Soul Album (Stax Records, 1966)
Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (Stax Records, 1966)
King & Queen (Stax Records, 1967)
The Dock of the Bay (Stax Records, 1968)
With Lulu
Melody Fair (Atco, 1970)
With Albert King
Born Under a Bad Sign (Stax Records, 1967)
With David Porter
Sweat & Love (Enterprise Records, 1974)
With Tony Joe White
Tony Joe White (Warner Bros. Records, 1971)
With Jimmy Buffett
Hot Water (MCA Records, 1988)
With Joe Cocker
Cocker (EMI, 1986)
With Tom Rush
Ladies Love Outlaws (Columbia Records, 1974)
With Bonnie Raitt
Longing in Their Hearts (Capitol Records, 1994)
With Keith Richards
Talk Is Cheap (Virgin Records, 1988)
With Tanya Tucker
Should I Do It (MCA Records, 1981)
With Carly Simon
Another Passenger (Elektra Records, 1976)
With José Feliciano
Memphis Menu (RCA Victor, 1972)
With Billy Joel
Storm Front (Columbia Records, 1989)
With Nicolette Larson
Nicolette (Warner Bros. Records, 1978)
With Rufus Thomas
Do the Funky Chicken (Stax Records, 1970)
With Shirley Brown
Intimate Storm (Soundtown Records, 1984)
With Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills 2 (Atlantic Records, 1971)
With Wilson Pickett
In the Midnight Hour (Atlantic Records, 1965)
The Exciting Wilson Pickett (Atlantic Records, 1966)
The Sound of Wilson Pickett (Atlantic Records, 1967)
Don't Knock My Love (Atlantic Records, 1971)
With Yvonne Elliman
Rising Sun (RSO Records, 1975)
With Carla Thomas
Love Means... (Stax Records, 1971)
With Aretha Franklin
Aretha Now (Atlantic Records, 1968)
Young, Gifted and Black (Atlantic Records, 1972)
Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (Atlantic Records, 1973)
With Everything I Feel in Me (Atlantic Records, 1974)
With William Bell
The Soul of a Bell (Stax Records, 1967)
With John Prine
Common Sense (Atlantic Records, 1975)
With James Taylor
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (Warner Bros. Records, 1971)
With Eddie Floyd
Knock on Wood (Stax Records, 1967)
With B.B. King
To Know You Is to Love You (ABC Records, 1973)
Friends (ABC Records, 1974)
With Steve Cropper
Playin' My Thang (MCA Records, 1981)
References
1941 births
2012 deaths
African-American saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Neurological disease deaths in Tennessee
Langston University alumni
Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee
Rhythm and blues saxophonists
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people
20th-century American saxophonists