I am too tired to post all the links but I rocked the jazz world when I filmed Giuseppie last winter playing Begin the Beguine in Tompkins Square Park. I thank found an old YouTube from the 1960's with him, his son and dog, strolling in Tompkins as music GL composed is playing in the background. I found the YouTube on the spelling Giuseppi Logan which was how he spelled his name on record covers.
I get emails from all over the world and today I received and email from and Italian woman who was moved by the YouTubes and wants to learn more about GL.
I told her because of the interest in GL and I am proud my YouTubes helped, his old record label is rereleasing his original albums from the 1960's and the last YouTube I posted was GL composing a new song for the album inspired by a woman that was kind to him and helped me way back when.
Tompkins Square Park is a magical and haunting park for both Giuseppie and for me. I felt like he and I were ghosts but we were both passionate artists driven to return to the park destined to gravitate towards each other.
I think of the book The Soloist but I don't have the privileges, contacts and resources Steve Lopez has. It makes me both sad and angry but I have had amazing contact with people that have found me like Tim Madison, Doug the famous jazz expert from the Lower East Side that I have links to on the YouTubes, Pete Gershon, publisher of Signal to Noise that wrote "Out From the Shadow" and instead of my usual experience of being deleted, erased and robbed Pete acknowledged my work and contribution and I was deeply moved and honored.
I will keep you posted on Giuseppie Logan and if you see him in Tompkins Square Park, please say hello. He loves contact with people. He loves to play and of course he needs support. GL is honest. He doesn't blame other people for his troubled past. He admits it. He does hope to be re-united with his son, the little boy playing with pals that clearly adored him in the childrens playground still here in Tompkins. His son is a musical genius and has a successful career. He too has suffered great personal heartache from what I learned about Doug's research http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/01/lost-and-blessedly-found-giuseppi-logan.html
Below is the 2nd YouTube I made where you find out GL is playing at the Bowery Poetry Club so it is a return for him from the streets.
