This great saxophonist and multireed instramentalist grew up in Detroit and studied at the Detroit Institute of Music. His first big break came when he was asked to join the 4 Topps for a gig in New York and continued on tour with them. When this engagement finished, he continued playing with various bands in New York City.

This was the night life. Jazz! Music! I couldn't believe it. I was meeting Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and other musical giants who would come to watch us play.

While in New York he recorded With Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.

He can be heard on one of Hancock's most successful albums which has sold more than 1 million copies and has earned both gold and platinum status.

He can also be heard on a pivotal Miles Davis original double LP, where Miles Davis drew a line in the sand that some jazz fans have never crossed, or even forgiven Davis for drawing. The album won him a new audience of adventurous rock fans, but alienated long-time enthusiasts who had no time for the contemporary pop vocabulary and considered Davis a traitor to jazz for incorporating it. Thirty plus years on, the album stands outside of any genre but endures as commanding, absorbing music.

Who is this musician and what are the two recordings mentioned above that he was a part of?

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