I actually took it off, man, and carved holes in it and made a mouthpiece. So finally, I took up the saxophone at about five, primarily through my dad’s Victrola. They had bought me a piano when I was about one year old, and I’d been banging on that thing all my life. A Victrola had an arm shaped like a saxophone that the needle was in that played the record. See, that’s a little bit before your time. Well, actually I began very, very early by taking my father’s Victrola. Freeman and John Young has been posted on the Jazz Journalist Association website for more than a decade maybe next year, I’ll post it here. A transcript of a 1991 encounter with Mr. Three years ago, when his NEA Jazz Mastership was announced, I posted this 1994 interview. It was the first of what I believe were 4, maybe 5 encounters that I was fortunate to be able to put together with the maestro during my years at the station. For the 91st birth anniversary of the master tenor saxophonist Von Freeman, one of the most singular individual stylists ever to play his instrument, here’s the proceedings of a Musician’s show that he did with me on WKCR in 1987.
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