Jazz Articles about Wilton 'Bogey' Gaynair

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Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair: Africa Calling

by Chris May
February 4, 2006

Jamaican tenor saxophonist Wilton “Bogey" Gaynair, whose passionate double-barrelled playing (and take no prisoners technical facility) illuminated the British hard bop scene in the late '50s, is today more or less forgotten. He made one headlong charge of an album, Blue Bogey, in '59, before disappearing into obscurity (or to be precise, into Germany, which at the time amounted to the same thing). He resurfaced for a short while in the early '80s with Kenny Wheeler and Alan Skidmore in ...