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When I got out to
California in the late
’60s, I was still just
learning. Most of the
cats that played music
I liked at the time
were Latinos. There
was a horn player
from Santa Ana
named Tony Elisalda.
He was the first one
who really taught me
harmonies to back up
blues and soul. A lot
of soul music is played
in unison. Check out
Fans dig the saxophone sounds created by Terry Hanck Blues fans can enjoy Deanna Bogart playing sax at
Photo by Tim Parsons the Memphis Horns summer festivals Photo by Kim Reed
– Wayne Jackson on
me a lot of money, so if there is someone out there looking for a trumpet and the late Andrew Love on tenor sax – they had the
Selmer Mark VI, give me a call. best soul sound ever.
I tried taking some lessons when I first started and was lucky In my early playing days, I was very shy, so the hardest part
enough to be taken in by a great Chicago horn player named was facing the crowd between songs. After I joined Elvin Bishop
Joe Daily. He asked me to play something, so I started honking during his heyday from 1977-87, I gained a lot of confidence. I
and squawking, thinking he would say it was brilliant. That’s went from playing in a club with three people who didn’t care,
when he told me to stop. He said, “I’ll show you how to read to all of a sudden doing the same thing at the Oakland Coliseum
[music] until you can read a Charlie Parker solo. Then you are for a Day on the Green with 55,000 screaming people who
on your own.” But I never got that far. I didn’t have the discipline. loved it.

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