Phil Urso, a tenor saxophonist with honey-dipped phrasing who played with top jazz musicians on both coasts in the 1950s, including Miles Davis and Chet Baker, died on April 7th after a long illness. He was 83.
On Wednesday, I spoke with Phil's brother Joe, who remembered an easy-going player consumed by music and jazz at an early age and was heavily inf…
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