Preston Love

(1921- ) born in Omaha. Saxophonist and bandleader, journalist and teacher, played with jazz bands of Count Basie and others, led his own rhythm and blues group based in Los Angeles in the 1950s, then formed with Johnny Otis in the 1960s a recording company, affiliating with Motown and other soul groups, backed such singers as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, and Marvin Gaye; returned to Omaha in 1971 as a journalist, teacher, and broadcaster, recipient of honorary doctorate from Creighton University in 1992. Consult Sunday /Omaha/World Herald, July 15, 1990, pp. F-1, F-3 and December 14, 1997, pp. E-1, E-8 and Preston Love, A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life in Music from Basie to Motown-and Beyond (Wesleyan University Press, 1997) and New York Times, April 5, 1998, Sec. 2, p. 38 and Nebraska Life, Sept/Oct 1999, pp. 18-22 and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed, Vol 2 (2002) 628.

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