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Don Byas

Don Byas was an American tenor saxophonist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, who established himself in the 1940s swing-era ba...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

8.8 Great

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Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist who recorded prolifically on both alto and tenor saxophone across a career...

American Tenor Jazz Bebop

8.7 Great

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Gene Ammons

Gene Ammons was an American tenor saxophonist born in Chicago in 1925 and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons...

American Chicago Tenor Jazz

8.5 Great

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Jan Garbarek

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer who came to prominence in the late 1960s through his work with Amer...

Tenor Jazz Nordic Soprano

8.5 Great

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Evan Parker

Evan Parker is a British saxophonist born in 1944 who has been active in free improvisation since the mid-1960s, perform...

Tenor British Jazz Soprano

8.5 Great

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Jimmy Giuffre

Jimmy Giuffre was an American jazz composer, arranger, clarinetist, and saxophonist who lived from 1921 to 2008. He wrot...

American Tenor Jazz Cool

8.5 Great

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Illinois Jacquet

Illinois Jacquet (1922-2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing, jump blues, and early rhythm...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

8.4 Great

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Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brotzmann was a German saxophonist and composer associated with European free jazz and improvised music. His 1968...

German Avant Garde Tenor Free Jazz

8.4 Great

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Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist who plays both the soprano and tenor saxophones. He is highly...

American Contemporary Tenor Jazz

8.3 Great

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Tubby Hayes

Edward Brian 'Tubby' Hayes was a British jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known as a tenor saxophonist and vibraphonist....

Tenor British Jazz 1960S

8.3 Great

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Stanley Turrentine

Stanley Turrentine was an American tenor saxophonist who lived from 1934 to 2000 and became closely associated with soul...

American Tenor Jazz Blues

8.3 Great

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James Moody

James Moody was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist, recognized primarily for his work on the tenor and alto saxop...

American Tenor Jazz Bebop

8.2 Great

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Billy Harper

Billy Harper is an American tenor saxophonist and composer, born in 1943, whose music combines post-bop writing with ele...

American Tenor Jazz Post Bop

8.0 Great

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Ben Wendel

Ben Wendel is a Canadian-born American jazz saxophonist, bassoonist, pianist, and composer who co-founded the eclectic m...

American Contemporary Tenor Jazz

7.6 Good

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Odean Pope

Odean Pope is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer born in 1938 and closely associated with Philadelphia. He...

American Philadelphia Tenor Jazz

7.6 Good

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Seamus Blake

Seamus Blake is a British-born jazz saxophonist, born in 1970 and raised in Canada, who is principally known as a tenor...

Contemporary Tenor Jazz Post Bop

7.6 Good

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Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader born in Chicago in 1949. The son of tenor saxoph...

American Chicago Tenor Jazz

7.5 Good

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Ricky Ford

Ricky Ford is an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts. He came to prominence in the lat...

American Tenor Jazz Post Bop

7.3 Good

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Chris Cheek

Chris Cheek is an American jazz saxophonist, born in 1968, known primarily for playing tenor and soprano saxophones. Act...

American Contemporary Tenor Jazz

7.0 Good

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Roxy Coss

Roxy Coss is an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and educator associated with New York's contemporary jazz communi...

American Contemporary Tenor Jazz

6.9 Fair