Sam Taylor (jazz)
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Tenor saxophonist Sam L. Taylor, best known as Sam the Man Taylor (b. 1916, in Lexington, Tennessee) was a jazz and blues player, whose honking style set the standard for tenor sax solos in rock and roll and rhythm and blues.
He worked with Scatman Crothers, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, and many more. He was the go-to session sax player in New York recording studios in the 1950s.
During the 1960s, he led a five-piece band, the Blues Chasers.
He has had a history of heart problems, having undergone two open heart surgeries. Also his son, Bobby Taylor, also a blues musician, died of a heart attack in 1997.[1]
Sam Taylor was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
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- ^ Alvarez, Tina. Taylor Made:. Entertainment Magazine On Line. Retrieved on January 11, 2006.
