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Guardian jazz reporter, writer, broadcaster, dad, Spurs optimist, classic car fan, Londoner, all views mine etc.
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Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet review – inspired sax maestro bounces from bebop to fertile improv

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By John Fordham Verified
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The saxophone's 19th-century inventor, the Belgian Adolphe Sax, imagined hybrid horns that could combine the speed and fluency of woodwinds with the volume and punch of brass. Sax's career was almost derailed by a childhood of hair-raisingly frequent accident-proneness that led his mother to fear for his survival, but at 20 he patented a prototype contrabass clarinet, and then the first saxophone as its offspring.
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Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings

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By John Fordham Verified
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A 30-year-old Sonny Rollins had already made his unique mark with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk by the time this 1956 session was cut, just a year after bebop sax revolutionary Charlie Parker’s death – but hooking up with his contemporary and admirer John Coltrane happened by chance on the two-tenor blues chase of this album’s title.
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Sonny Rollins obituary Original

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By John Fordham Verified
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The flyers for his shows often called the saxophonist Sonny Rollins “the greatest living improviser”. On the face of it, that statement appeared to collide with the evidence, because many of the elements of a Rollins gig were repeated from one show to another.
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