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Unfortunately I missed the great man during his long career. In the 60s he appeared at Manchester's Club 43 where I saw Webster, Mobley, Griffin, Dexter, but not Sonny. 😢

Rollins biog is inspiring a lot of listening: book in one hand (not quite because of the weight), phone in other, getting all those obscure dates on Spotify as they're analysed in the text. 🎷

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For the most talent-packed evening the choice must be, once again at the Free Trade Hall, in April 1961 when I saw in the first set the Art Blakey Jazz Messengers with Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt and in the second set the Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop.

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I was at a Basie concert In 1958 at the age of 19 on the front row of Manchester's Free Trade Hall, right in front of the saxophone section. Much of The Atomic Mr Basie repertoire was being played and Frank Foster was laughing at my "gone" antics.

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That Rollins biography is certainly taking me back to some good un's! 😃

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