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One of the most prominent baritone saxophonist of his generation, Hamiet Bluiett combines a blunt, modestly inflected attack using a fleet, aggressive technique, and (probably most of all) a uniform hugeness of sound that extends from his horn’s lowest reaches to far beyond what’s usually its highest register. Most likely …

b. 16 Sept 1940, Lovejoy, Illinois, USA. Bluiett was trained music by his aunt, who directed a choir, and begun to play the clarinet at age nine. He afterwards researched flute and baritone saxophone at Southern Illinois College or university, then spent many years within the navy. Within the middle-60s …