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Perhaps it is the water, whatever, the State of NEW YORK has produced a lot more than it’s share of good saxophone players. John Coltrane, Harold Vicks, Lou Donaldson and Tina Brooks are among the prominent reed males North Carolina promises as natives. John Alexander not merely was created there, …

The senseless loss of life of young pianist Johnny Ace while indulging in a round of Russian roulette backstage at Houston’s City Auditorium on Christmas Day of 1954 will overshadow his relatively brief but illustrious recording career on Duke Information. That is clearly a pity, for Ace’s mild, plaintive vocal …