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Donald Walden 'Kept Jazz Alive'

SOURCE: Published: 2008-04-09
Donald Walden

Few musicians have embodied the soul of the Detroit jazz scene as powerfully in recent decades as Donald Walden, a tenor saxophonist and teacher who played with a searingly lyrical sound and rippled muscularity.

Walden, who died Sunday at his Detroit home at age 69 from complications due to cancer, was a child of bebop...

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