The saxophonist, who died at 95, built a catalogue that reshaped jazz improvisation not through grand statements, but through relentless, in-the-moment invention.
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The saxophonist, who died at 95, built a catalogue that reshaped jazz improvisation not through grand statements, but through relentless, in-the-moment invention.
The saxophonist who never stopped pushing beyond his own legend leaves behind a career that traced the full arc of jazz, from bebop to his own uncompromising future.
The saxophonist behind *Saxophone Colossus* and a string of essential live and studio dates died at his home in Woodstock. He was 95.
