Von Freeman obituary

Unassuming master of post-bop jazz who refused to leave his native ChicagoTo get the real point of Von Freeman, the American tenor saxophonist who has died aged 88, you had to hear him in one of the Chicago jazz lounges that he inhabited throughout his long career. Late in life, he came to be recognised as one of the finest tenor saxophonists of his generation, a status he had long been accorded by his peers, many of whom had tried, without success, to prise him away from his home town.Almost ha...

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