Since I'm now tenor crazy after featuring great saxophonists all week, I went in search of video featuring even mightier reed players. How about Dexter Gordon, Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate, Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb on the same stage engaging in a tenor battle?
Here's the clip. Jacquet is in the cream suit, Tate is in the checked suit, Johnson is in the gray leather jacket over the brown shirt, Gordon is in the blue jacket and blue polka-dot shirt and Cobb is on crutches...
What about Dexter Gordon with Cannonball Adderley and Gene Ammons, plus Nat Adderley? Here you go...
Here's Stanley Turrentine with Jimmy Smith (organ) and Kenny Burrell (guitar)...
And here's Hank Crawford with Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff...
Here's the clip. Jacquet is in the cream suit, Tate is in the checked suit, Johnson is in the gray leather jacket over the brown shirt, Gordon is in the blue jacket and blue polka-dot shirt and Cobb is on crutches...
What about Dexter Gordon with Cannonball Adderley and Gene Ammons, plus Nat Adderley? Here you go...
Here's Stanley Turrentine with Jimmy Smith (organ) and Kenny Burrell (guitar)...
And here's Hank Crawford with Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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