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Saxophonist Blue Lou Marini celebrates 40th anniversary of 'The Blues Brothers'

CHICAGO - It's one of the most thrilling musical scenes in a film packed with them:

Aretha Franklin sings and struts around her tiny Maxwell Street diner, imploring her musician boyfriend to "Think" before he considers walking out on her and rejoining Joliet Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) in "The Blues Brothers."

They're "putting the band back together," as Belushi famously says throughout the film, and in the midst of the scene, a dishwasher takes off his hair net, shakes out his flowing locks, picks up his alto saxophone, jumps up onto the restaurant counter and starts blowing his horn, prowling up and down the counter all

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