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Benny Golson, tenor saxophone stylist and jazz composer of first rank, refuses to rest on his laurels. At almost 80, he's an elder statesman of jazz who could easily cruise and live off the royalties of "I Remember Clifford," "Whisper Not," "Along Came Betty" and others among his 300 compositions. But such a notion is anathema to him...
Listening to the music of tenor saxophonist Paul Carr, one recognizes that he has completely imbued the music of the late Joe Henderson, to whom he pays tribute on Musically Yours: Remembering Joe Henderson. Growing up in Texas under the spell of such "Texas Tenors" as Don Wilkerson and Arnett Cobb, Carr developed a big blusey tone...
The Hague (Netherlands), Sept 30 - Cees Slinger (jazz pianist) has died yesterday of heart problems at the age of 77. Cees has played with innumerable American and European jazz greats, such as: trumpet players: Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Dusko Goykovich and Benny Bailey trombonists: Slide Hampton, Al Grey, Bob Brookmeyer, Curtis Fuller, Bart van Lier, Bert Boeren, and Jimmy Knepper...
It's twilight, the evening before Labor Day, and the weather is ideal. Odean Pope's tenor sax resounds in the verdant hills of the Awbury Arboretum, the site of Germantown's second annual John Coltrane Jazz Festival.
Dewey Redman died last year. [Wikipedia.] At that time, we wrote an obituary. Today is his birthday. --- One of the less satisfactory aspects of the art form known as jazz is how some of its greatest exponents are overlooked....
