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Trivia Archive

September 2006 Sax Trivia Contest

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Prizes:

  • 5 boxes of Alexander Superial ($ 90.00 value)

Winner

Tom Ferguson from Sturbridge, MA US

Contest background

If you look hard enough for tenor saxophonists from the 1960's, you will find me. I studied at the Berklee School of Music for a year. While in the Air Force, I taught myself how to play the saxophone.

I played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Horace Parlan. I wrote a couple of tunes for my favorite AL's: a minor blues dedicated to producer, Alfred Lion,
and the other titled for drummer Alan Dawson. I was also the lone voice in the introduction to an Open Letter to Duke.

I died from kidney disease in 1970 at the age of 39, which was "tragically" young.

Contest Question

Who am I?

Correct Answer

Booker Ervin

Where You Could Have Found The Answer

All About Jazz - Booker Ervin
Thanks to everyone who participated in this month's Saxquest trivia contest!!