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The Big Horn: The Complete History of the Honkin' and Screamin' Saxophone

Label: Proper Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc 1: Flying Home: 1. Illinois Jacquet - Flying Home 2. Illinois Jacquet - Blues 3. Big Jim Wynn - Rock Woogie 4. Big Jim Wynn - West Coast Lover 5. Pazuzza Simon - Raisin

Various: The Big Horn: The Complete History of the Honkin' and Screamin' Saxophone

by Louis Heckheimer
May 20, 2004

Prior to the late 1930s the trumpet was king of the jazz jungle. Coleman Hawkins, along with Lester Young and Chu Berry, established the solo role of the tenor sax in the jazz world and showed what it was capable of. It was not until the 1940s with the rise of Lionel Hampton's Big Band and ...