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Last week, Danilo Morandi in Switzerland sent along YouTube clips of two senior tenor saxophonists who played their tails off locally.

I added a third.

One of these saxophonists is Larry McKenna, a Philadelphian who spent six months in Woody Herman's road band starting in before devoting much of his career to playing locally. I last included Larry in a post in here.

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The other saxophonist Danilo sent is Aubra Graves. An astonishing player. Graves doesn't turn up in Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. Instead, he settled in Waco, Texas, in and made his livelihood playing at local jazz clubs and working at music stores as a bookkeeper, in sales and instrument repair.

And yet he was a monster player.

And I added Irv WIlliams, who played in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and recorded about a dozen albums before passing in

Here are the clips, starting with Larry McKenna, who was born in

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