Clifford Scott

Clifford Scott: Out Front

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 28, 2017

Jazz fans view the saxophone narrowly. What I mean is that we tend to think of the reed instrument in a straight line from Frankie Trumbauer in the '20s and Benny Carter and Bud Freeman in the '30s to Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. But in the late 1940s and '50s, there were far more saxophonists recording R&B than jazz. Improvisation was more challenging than blowing ...
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