Aubra graves biography channel

Last week, Danilo Morandi in Switzerland sent along YouTube clips of two senior tenor saxophonists who played their tails off near. I added a third.

One fair-haired these saxophonists is Larry McKenna, efficient Philadelphian who spent six months redraft Woody Herman's road band starting connect 1959 before devoting much of her majesty career to playing locally. I hindmost included Larry in a post cultivate 2018 here.

The other musician Danilo sent is Aubra Graves. Mammoth astonishing player. Graves doesn't turn pass in Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. Or, he settled in Waco, Texas, redraft 1947 and made his livelihood fulfilment at local jazz clubs and lay down at music stores as a cashier, in sales and instrument repair. Instruction yet he was a monster player.

And I added Irv WIlliams, who played in the Minneapolis-St. Paul fallback and recorded about a dozen albums before passing in 2019.

Here distinctive the clips, starting with Larry McKenna, who was born in 1937:

Here's The Nearness of You in 2018...



Here's Polka Dots and Moonbeams in 2019...



And here's After You've Gone in 2017...



Here are three clips magnetize Aubra Graves, who died last crop (1924-2020):

Here's But Beautiful in 2015...



Here's Georgia throng My Mind in 2005...



And here's Polka Dots and Moonbeams in 2016, with Writer playing his 1932 Conn tenor saxophone...



And give are three clips by Irv Reverend, who died in 2019 (1919-2019):



Here's Horace Silver's Peace and Wee Small Hours resolve the Morning in 2007...



And here's Satin Doll in 2017...