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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Lol Coxhill, Dick Morrissey, Geoff Leigh, John Dankworth, Iain Ballamy, Simon Spillett, John Surman, Tubby Hayes, Michael J. Parlett, Dennis Berry, Barbara Thompson, Evan Parker, Danny Moss, Roger Ruskin Spear, Peter King, Nigel Hitchcock, YolanDa Brown, Cliff Townshend, Courtney Pine, Trevor Watts, Julian Arguelles, Don Weller, Pete Thomas, Elton Dean, Tony Coe, Pete King, Don Rendell, Tony Kofi, Ralph Moore, John Butcher, Andy Hamilton, Alan Skidmore, Bruce Turner, Steve Williamson, Tommy Whittle, Steve Gregory, Alan Wakeman, Art Themen, Sammy Rimington, Chris Biscoe, Jimmy Skidmore, Stan Robinson, George Haslam, Stan Sulzmann, Buddy Featherstonhaugh, Mike Smith, Kathy Stobart, John Barnes, Bob Downes, Julian Siegel. Excerpt: Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey (9 May 1940, Horley, Surrey - 8 November 2000, Deal, Kent) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute. Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain's pre-eminent sax player at the time. Self-taught, he started playing clarinet in his school band at the age of sixteen and then joining the Original Climax Jazz Band. Going on to join trumpeter Gus Galbraith's Septet, where alto-sax player Peter King introduced him to Charlie Parker's recordings, he began specialising on tenor saxophone shortly after. Making his name as a hard bop player, he appeared regularly at the Marquee Club from August 1960, and recorded his first solo album at the age of 21, It's Morrissey, Man! (1961) for Fontana, featuring Stan Jones on piano, Colin Barnes on drums, and The Jazz Couriers founding member Malcolm Cecil on bass. He spent most of 1962 in Calcutta, India as part of the Ashley Kozak Quartet, playing three 2-hour sessions seven days a week, before returning to the UK and forming his quartet with...
