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The ten best tenor saxophone players in all of jazz. Says me.
Branford's message was simple: "We're going on a ride, guys. Why don't you take a seat, strap yourself in, and hold on."
Hawkins took a chance by stirring in some talented unknowns that had yet to reach a mainstream audience. The gamble paid off.
If you could have only one Beatles album, which one would it be?
Every legend has at least one sideman who made him great. For Chuck Berry, that sideman was Johnnie Johnson.
After a good bit of digesting, I found Us to be one of my favorites by this most challenging artist.
Evans found, with his bassist Scott LaFaro, an improbable relationship, one based on simultaneous composition and improvisation.
You listen in slack-jawed wonder — realizing that "Come Down in Time," alone, could have established the legend of any lesser artist.
A quick look at the career of perhaps the last of the bird-flipping genre-busters.
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