Harry Klein obituary

One of the most highly rated jazz baritone saxophonists of the 50sWhen the Melody Maker was the voice of jazz in Britain, Harry Klein, who has died aged 81, topped its readers' poll as the UK's No 1 baritone saxophonist for four years in a row, from 1953 until 1957.His highly rated solos merited third place in the paper's international section, just behind the Swede Lars Gullin and Gerry Mulligan, then the most high-profile baritone saxophonist in jazz. The critic Leonard Feather described Klein...

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