Having made his debut in the late 40's, this Harlem native became a leading figure on the New York jazz scene in the 60's. Spending the majority of the 50's on heroin, when asked about practicing the saxophone he was once quoted as saying

I never had my horn. It was always in the pawn shop from 1950 on. My big practice years were from 1945, the year I first got my horn, to 1949 when I got strung out.

Some of his most inovative playing was in the early 60's after he had kicked his drug habit. When describing his own evolution and the elements of his style, this saxophonist said

I certainly, myself thought along heavy blues lines, blues feeling, and my concept of it, so I just think it had more of a gospel feeling to it, a sanctified feeling to it mixed with all the other ingredients that Bird, Bud, Thelonious gave us.

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