Saxophone players rose in prominence, carrying the blues and jazz to the mainstream.
"Random Brevities," The Muskogee (OK) Times Democrat, Feb 14, 1923.
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Joe Beard A club in Chicago. A jam session. It's 1967, maybe '68, and Joe Beard is playing a John Lee Hooker song, "Sallie... -
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© Robert Birdsong Jackie Brenston —the singer/saxophone player who, along with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm, recorded the epic 1951 ... -
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