Joe Temperley obituary

Baritone saxophonist who worked with Wynton Marsalis for a quarter of a centuryAlthough hailed by many as Scotland’s greatest ever jazz musician, the baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, who has died aged 86, only fully matured as a soloist after settling in the US in 1965. Recruited by the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in 1990 to become a founder member of the renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in New York, a rare accolade for a non-American, Temperley went on to enjoy an unbroken 25-year...

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