Back in the early 1970s bassist Buddy Clark and saxophonist Med Flory conceived a brilliant idea: to form a group (primarily a reed section with rhythm) that would use orchestrated arrangements of ...

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Jay Migliori, a charter member of the Grammy-winning group Supersax who played with everyone from Woody Herman to Frank Zappa in a career that spanned more than five decades, has died. He was 70.

When alto saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, whose playing transformed the post-WWII jazz world, died in 1955, graffiti began to appear on urban walls across the country: “Bird Lives.” That phrase ...