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Living Legend.
(From Jerusalem Post)
Byline: Barry Davis
These days the epithet "legend" is attached to almost any artist who has been around for a few years and has achieved a high degree of media exposure. But, veteran jazzman Franz Jackson is, truly, a living legend.
The saxophonist-clarinetist, who will open the new Israeli Opera jazz series on October 18 (at 10 p.m.), will be 90 years old this November. He is one of the last survivors of the pre-swing era. He gave his first public performances in Chicago in 1926, as part of a dance music band which played on a boat that plied a regular route around the city on Lake Michigan.
He soon graduated to more stellar outfits led by the likes of pianist Albert Ammons, clarinetist Jimmie Noone and trumpeter Roy Eldridge and by the late thirties landed a regular job with the ...
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