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Marshall Royal

For near twenty years — from the first ’50s until 1970 — the feature sax audio of Count number Basie’s big music group was topped from the obvious, vibrating business lead alto of Marshall Royal. Royal was, by all accounts, a reliable swing-based soloist, but his power was initially and …

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