As Ed Love reflects on three decades at WDET-FM 101.9, he declared during a marathon set of recorded interviews in September that:
“I plan to do this until I die and as long as I’m respected,” Love, the venerable jazz on-air personality, said about his tenure at WDET.
And the 91-year-old seemed to be enjoying broadcasting at National Public Radio’s Motor City member station as much as ever.
“Mary [Zatina] is the finest manager that I’ve ever had,” Love said about the station’s general manager. “This is ideal.”
Love suffered a stroke in 1994, which altered his voice somewhat, but his mind seems sharp and most important — he is a walking repository of jazz history. He agreed to more than eight hours…