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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: 48. Chapters: British jazz alto saxophonists, British jazz soprano saxophonists, English jazz saxophonists, Scottish jazz saxophonists, Lol Coxhill, Dick Morrissey, Geoff Leigh, John Dankworth, Iain Ballamy, Simon Spillett, John Surman, Tubby Hayes, Michael J. Parlett, Dennis Berry, Tommy Smith, Barbara Thompson, Evan Parker, Dan Forshaw, Danny Moss, Roger Ruskin Spear, Peter King, Nigel Hitchcock, YolanDa Brown, Cliff Townshend, Courtney Pine, Larry Stabbins, Trevor Watts, Mark Lockheart, Julian Arguelles, Don Weller, Pete Thomas, Elton Dean, Soweto Kinch, Tony Coe, Pete King, Don Rendell, Tony Kofi, Ralph Moore, John Butcher, Andy Hamilton, Alan Skidmore, Bruce Turner, Steve Williamson, Tommy Whittle, Dave O'Higgins, Richard Elliot, Tim Garland, Steve Gregory, Alan Wakeman, Art Themen, Sammy Rimington, Geoff Simkins, Chris Biscoe, Jimmy Skidmore, Stan Robinson, George Haslam, Frank Weir, Stan Sulzmann, Eddie Mordue, Buddy Featherstonhaugh, Mornington Lockett, Vic Ash, Mike Smith, Jack Sharpe, Derek Humble, Harry Klein, Alan Branscombe, Jamie Talbot, Billy Amstell, Ben Castle, Kathy Stobart, Jimmy Hastings, 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 Marque...
