If you look hard enough for tenor saxophonists from the 1960's, you will find me. I studied at the Berklee School of Music for a year. While in the Air Force, I taught myself how to play the saxophone.

I played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Horace Parlan. I wrote a couple of tunes for my favorite AL's: a minor blues dedicated to producer, Alfred Lion,
and the other titled for drummer Alan Dawson. I was also the lone voice in the introduction to an Open Letter to Duke.

I died from kidney disease in 1970 at the age of 39, which was "tragically" young.

Who am I?

Thanks to everyone who participated in this month's Saxquest trivia contest!!