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Performers identified primarily with jazz saxophone.
Tenor saxophonist from Providence, Rhode Island, a mainstay of Concord Records and leader of a widely recorded swing jazz quintet. Conservative sound and phrasing owes more to Ben Webster than to Dexter Gordon or Stan Getz. Acclaimed by Flip Phillips.
Born Joseph Edward Phillips in Brooklyn, New York in 1915, enjoyed a distinguished career as one of the stars of American jazz saxophone. Fame peaked with Jazz at the Philharmonic tours of the 1940s and 50s but came back strong with Concord Records and other specialtiy labels in the 1970s and 80s.
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