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This week's Utah Crowd-Funding project goes out to the original Utah jazzman.

Joe McQueen has been performing jazz for more than 80 of his 95 years on this earth. He arrived in Ogden on Dec. 7, 1945, intending to play a week at the Porters and Waiters Club before moving on. Instead, he stayed, and has called Utah home ever since.

McQueen, playing saxophone, has performed with most of the greats: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Lester Young, Charlie Parker and many more.

In all his years performing, though, he's only recorded three albums. The last one was recorded in one night this August with his quartet — guitarist Brad Wright, drummer Don Keipp, and Ryan Conger on Hammond organ — at Salt Lake City's Man vs. Music Studios, by engineer Mike Sasich.

Now, McQueen's friends and bandmates want to press that album onto vinyl, and they need money to do it. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign, trying to raise $10,500 for the album.

Right now, the campaign has raised $2,326 in pledges, with a deadline of Sunday, Nov. 23.

Benefits for backers range from a digital download of the new album (for $10) to executive-producer credit (for $3,000) — and include a free concert by McQueen's quartet at your home or private function (for $2,000).

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