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| - Elektra Records artists
- 20th-century composers
- Grammy Award winners
- American jazz composers
- Burials in Pennsylvania
- American male musicians
- Motown artists
- 1943 births
- 1999 deaths
- 20th-century American musicians
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- Burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery
- Columbia Records artists
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- Smooth jazz saxophonists
- Soul-jazz saxophonists
- African-American woodwind musicians
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| - American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist, born 11 November 1943, Buffalo, New York, USA, died 17 December 1999, New York, USA.
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| - Grover Washington, Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with Wes Montgomery, George Shearing, George Benson, John Klemmer, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chuck Mangione, Herb Alpert, and Spyro Gyra, he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre.He wrote some of his material and later became an arranger and producer.Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Washington made some of the genre's most memorable hits, including %22Mister Magic,%22 %22Reed Seed,%22 %22Black Frost,%22 %22Winelight,%22 %22Inner City Blues%22 and %22The Best is Yet to Come%22. In addition, he performed very frequently with other artists, including Bill Withers on %22Just the Two of Us%22 (still in regular rotation on radio today), Patti LaBelle on %22The Best Is Yet to Come%22 and Phyllis Hyman on %22A Sacred Kind of Love%22. He is also remembered for his take on the Dave Brubeck classic %22Take Five%22, and for his 1996 version of %22Soulful Strut%22.Washington had a preference for black nickel-plated saxophones made by Julius Keilwerth. These included a SX90R alto and SX90R tenor. He also played Selmer Mark VI alto in the early years.His main soprano was a black nickel plated H.Couf Superba II (also built by Keilwerth for Herbert Couf) and a Keilwerth SX90 in the last years of his life.
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- Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers
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- Washington, Jr.
- グローヴァー・ワシントンJr.
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