Freddy Syer obituary

The alto saxophonist Freddy Syer, who has died aged 80, was a member of that elite group of young jazz musicians in postwar London that mastered the technical demands and harmonic complexity of bebop, the new music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.Some of those musicians, who jammed regularly at Fullado's and the Club Eleven, achieved great fame. But for every Ronnie Scott and John Dankworth there were other gifted players, such as Freddy, who drifted into relative obscurity.To hear bebop ...

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