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The rockin’ sax

Illinois Jacquet, Red Prysock, Big Jay McNeely

one-note solos, altissimo squeals

1942 ‘flying home’ featuring Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton’s band.

audiences went wild for the aggressive, exciting, primal, frenzied, raw, screeching, in contrast to smooth, fluid, dense, cerebral improvisations of be-boppers such as Charlie Parker.

sax battles at the Jazz at the Philharmonic

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