Inspired by pianist Lennie Tristano, tenor saxophonist Ted Brown (above) came up in what we now call the cool school of jazz. Saxophonists who played in this style tended to blow in dryer, pastel tones while keeping a rigid sense of time while unspooling long ribbons of improvised lines. Though Brown studied with Tristano, his sound shares much with ten…
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