Fred Anderson obituary

Free-jazz saxophonist devoted to his hometown of ChicagoNew Orleans and New York are usually the frontrunners for iconic jazz towns, but Chicago comes very close. Louis Armstrong and the pioneering New Orleans jazz wave moved there in the northward migrations of the early 20th century; Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke and the early white stylists developed their own brand of swing there in the late 20s; and in the 1960s the city was home to free-jazz experimenters such as the saxophonist Fred Ande...

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