Wikipedia : This day (December 17, 1999 ), in New York city, died Grover Washington, Jr., an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist.
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Jazz at Pitt : So impressed was Creed Taylor, Hammond’s producer and head of CTI, that he signed Grover to a contract as a leader. When his debut as a leader, Inner City Blues was released in 1971, Grover was still working at a Philadelphia record wholesaler
@last.fm : Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Washington made some of the genre’s most memorable hits, including Mister Magic,Black Frost, and The Best Is Yet To Come.
@Discogs : 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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