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Tim Ries
Tim Ries
American jazz saxophonist
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Take 6
Take 6
American a cappella gospel music group
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Rick Margitza
Rick Margitza
American musician
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Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Bud Freeman
Bud Freeman
American musician
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
American musician
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Sara Lazarus
Sara Lazarus
Franco-American singer
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Leon Thomas
Leon Thomas
American singer
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
American jazz musician
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Michael Blake
Michael Blake
Canadian saxophonist
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Barney Bigard
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
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Ricky Ford
Ricky Ford
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Roy Hargrove
Roy Hargrove
American jazz trumpeter
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Ben Riley
Ben Riley
American drummer
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Wendell Marshall
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
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Harold Ashby
Harold Ashby
American musician
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Budd Johnson
Budd Johnson
American musician
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Frank Lowe
Frank Lowe
American jazz saxophonist
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Jesper Lundgaard
Jesper Lundgaard
Danish musician
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Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
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Don Byas
Don Byas
American musician
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Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin
American musician
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Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
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Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
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Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
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John Coltrane
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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Jaki Byard
Jaki Byard
American musician
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Eddie Harris
Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
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Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Danny Moss
Danny Moss
Jazz saxophonist
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David Murray
David Murray
American jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet)
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Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott
British musician
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Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Thomas Chapin
Thomas Chapin
American musician
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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George Garzone
George Garzone
American musician
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Gene Ammons
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Paul Bley
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
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Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano
American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist
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Bobby Jaspar
Bobby Jaspar
cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer
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Barry Harris
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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David "Fathead" Newman
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Booker Ervin
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
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Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
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Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Muggsy Spanier
Muggsy Spanier
American musician
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John Gilmore
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
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Bob Berg
Bob Berg
American musician
Tomas Franck
Swedish saxophonist

Tomas Franck

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Swedish saxophonist
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Tomas Franck (Aarhus Jazz Festival 2015)

Tomas Bengt Erik Franck (born October 14, 1958 in Angelholm) is a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist.

Franck was raised in the town of Helsingborg, where he took up clarinet as a youth, switching to tenor sax in his teens. He studied at the Musik-högskolan in Malmö in the early 1980s, where he formed a group called Equinox and performed with Peps Persson; starting in 1982, he began playing with Fredrik Norén, an association that would last until 1986. In the 1990s he worked with the Radioens Big Band and was the recipient of the Ben Webster Prize in 1991.

Franck has performed and recorded extensively as a sideman with, among others, Nikolaj Bent-zon, Ben Besiakov, Thomas Blachman, Thomas Clausen, Carsten Dahl, Niels Lan Doky, Billy Drummond, Al Foster, Lennart Ginman, Roy Haynes, Kirk Lightsey, Doug Raney, and Jens Winther.