Many tenor saxophonists in the late 1940s and '50s played like Lester Young—once they figured out how to run alternate melody lines on the chord changes of standards and blues in the upper register. One of these Prez disciples was Brew Moore. He was so enamored of Young, he held his saxophone off to the side just as Young did. But rather than simply mim…
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