Tenor-saxophone duos were common in the late 1940s, '50s and into the '60s. They often were promoted as "tenor battles" by record labels, but more often than not the two reed players were working together to create great music. Such duos included Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin, and A…
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