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Harry Carney

Harry Carney was an American jazz musician best known for playing the baritone saxophone in the Duke Ellington orchestra...

American Jazz Swing Ellington

9.2 Excellent

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Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz was an American alto saxophonist and a prominent figure in the cool jazz movement of the 1940s and 1950s. He...

American Jazz Cool Alto

9.1 Excellent

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Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist, flutist, and bandleader associated with experimental jazz and Chi...

American Avant Garde Jazz Alto

8.9 Great

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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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Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell is an American composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist associated with experimental jazz and con...

American Avant Garde Jazz Aacm

8.8 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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Paul Gonsalves

Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who lived from 1920 to 1974 and spent much of his career in Duke E...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

8.1 Great

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Bennie Maupin

Bennie Maupin is an American jazz multi-reedist whose instruments include tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, and sop...

American Tenor Jazz Fusion

8.0 Great

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Chu Berry

Chu Berry, born Leon Brown Berry in 1908, was an American tenor saxophonist prominent during the swing era. He performed...

American Tenor Jazz 1930S

8.0 Great

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Eddie Davis

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who lived from 1922 to 1986. Known for a forceful, blues-in...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.9 Good

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Herschel Evans

Herschel Evans (1909-1939) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated most closely with the Count Basie Orchestra...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.9 Good

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Arnett Cobb

Arnett Cobb was an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Houston, Texas, widely recognized for his robust, hard-swingi...

American Tenor Jazz Texas

7.7 Good

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Earl Bostic

Earl Bostic was an American alto saxophonist, bandleader, and arranger whose career connected swing, jazz, rhythm and bl...

American Jazz R&b Swing

7.7 Good

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Flip Phillips

Flip Phillips was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his energetic, hard-driving performances during the...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.6 Good

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Bud Freeman

Bud Freeman was an American jazz musician, composer, and bandleader who lived from 1906 to 1991. Primarily known as a te...

American Chicago Tenor Jazz

7.6 Good

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Buddy Tate

Buddy Tate (1913–2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra....

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.5 Good

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Jimmy Forrest

Jimmy Forrest was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues tenor saxophonist whose career spanned from the swing era into m...

American Tenor Jazz R&b

7.2 Good

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Harry Allen

Harry Allen is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, born in 1966, whose playing is rooted in swing and mainstream jazz tr...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.0 Good

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Seldon Powell

Seldon Powell was an American tenor saxophonist and flautist born in 1928 and deceased in 1997. His career covered swing...

American Studio Tenor Jazz

6.9 Fair