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This is a group for Fans of Aubra Graves.

He was the young star soloist in a band of old pros.

A glorious musician, up there in the top rank of tenor men, with wonderful tone and ideas, expressed on what for me is the greatest tenor sax ever made.

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Last week, Danilo Morandi in Switzerland sent along YouTube clips of two senior tenor saxophonists who played their tails off locally.

I added a third.

One of these saxophonists is Larry McKenna, a Philadelphian who spent six months in Woody Herman's road band starting in 1959 before devoting much of his career to playing locally. I last included Larry in a post in 2018 here.

The other saxophonist Danilo sent is Aubra Graves. An astonishing player.

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Graves doesn't turn up in Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. Instead, he settled in Waco, Texas, in 1947 and made his livelihood playing at local jazz clubs and working at music stores as a bookkeeper, in sales and instrument repair. And yet he was a monster player.

And I added Irv WIlliams, who played in the Minneapolis-St.

Paul area and recorded about a dozen albums before passing in 2019.

Here are the clips, starting with Larry McKenna, who was