"In 1962, Shorter emerged a boy wonder both on tenor saxophone and as a composer, " Hurst says.

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His father was a musician with the Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra Sy Axman, who played tenor saxophone beside Glen Gray's alto.

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NPR's Roy Hurst has this profile of the legendary tenor saxophone player.

NPR: Saxophone Legend Wayne Shorter

Bill Clinton's best-known hobby was playing the tenor saxophone.

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When I went away to sleepaway camp that summer, my mother not only cleaned and fumigated my room but threw out all the cigars I had hidden inside the bell of my tenor saxophone.

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His trademark sound and laid-back swing--he said he wanted to sound like a dry martini--hinted at the influence of tenor saxophone master Lester Young , a tendency shared by many white saxophonists of the time.

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