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The Rolling Stones’ sax player Bobby Keys, Outlaw Country legend Waylon Jennings, and Rock & Roll originator Buddy Holly all lived in the same neighborhood in Lubbock, Texas & were friends before each was famous. Jennings & Keys both played with Holly’s backing band The Crickets (though Keys did after Holly’s death).

“Are big bands coming back? Sure, every football season.” – Clarinetist and saxophonist Woody Herman

“If you don’t make mistakes you are not really trying.” – Jazz Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins

“It was the best string group yet, but the conductor couldn’t swing if you hung him.” – Jazz Saxophonist/Bandleader/Composer Phil Woods

“Don’t play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.” – Charlie Parker

The Rolling Stones’ Bobby Keys played saxophone on Elvis Presley’s hit 1962 song “Return to Sender”

During two very close sessions in 1970, Saxophone legend Bobby Keys played very similar sax solos in both The Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin'” and George Harrison’s “Out of the Blue” from his album ‘All Things Must Pass’.

Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and prolific composer Bhumibol Adulyadej, who performed with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter, was probably better known for his day job as the King of Thailand for over five decades.

A young Alan Greenspan played sax and clarinet professionally in the 1940s with future jazz great Stan Getz — but quit after deciding he could never reach Getz’ level of skill. Instead, he pursued economics, eventually becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades.

American jazz saxophonist Sidney Bechet spent a year in jail for dueling on the streets of Paris and accidentally shooting an innocent bystander. The duel was over whether or not Bechet was in tune.

Ray Charles also played saxophone.

There’s a small town diner in Springfield, Illinois named after Jazz saxophone legend Charlie Parker.

While still a somewhat unknown musician in Lubbock, Texas, Buddy Holly attracted two young men to his orbit: future country music star Waylon Jennings and future Rolling Stones’ saxophonist Bobby Keys.

The Rolling Stones’ (future) saxophonist Bobby Keys reportedly played the saxophone solo on Elvis Presley’s 1962 hit song “Return to Sender”.

Jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderly and jazz trumpeter Nat Adderly were brothers.

The Rolling Stones’ longtime saxophonist Bobby Keys was fired in the 1973 tour after missing the roll call because, according to Keith Richards, he was busy with a “bathtub full of [Dom Perignon] and this French chick”

Jazz music great Pharoah Sanders played the tenor saxophone.

Charlie Parker’s saxophone is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History in Washington D.C.

Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders joined John Coltrane’s band in 1964 until the Jazz legend’s death in 1967, after which Sanders also recorded with Alice Coltrane, John’s wife.

Jazz saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders was born on October 13, 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas, US.

King Curtis played saxophone on Aretha Franklin’s hit “RESPECT”.

Saint John Coltrane Church in San Fransisco, California, celebrates the Jazz saxophonist’s sainthood, and communes every Sunday with the holy spirit through scripture reading, hymns, spirituals, and the Coltrane Liturgy.

Where Charlie Parker got the name “Bird” is a mystery — In one story, Parker as a young man would practice playing saxophone in parks, far enough away from residences that he wouldn’t be hassled.

Where Charlie Parker got the name “Bird” is a mystery — In one famed story from The Reno Club in Kansas City, Drummer Jo Jones (no relation to “Philly” Jo Jones) threw a cymbal at teenage Charlie Parker’s feet when he poorly improvised a saxophone solo in the wrong key, causing him to fly like a bird.

The Rolling Stones’ longtime saxophonist Bobby Keys was Buddy Holly’s neighbor growing up in Lubbock, Texas. His first tour was with Holly when he was just 15.

Sam Cooke’s famous 1962 live performance at Harlem Square Club included King Curtis on Sax and Cornell Dupree on guitar.

After the tragic death of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, his friend poet Ted Joans began writing “Bird Lives” all over New York City. The campaign took a life of its own, and BIRD LIVES can still occasionally be found scrawled on sidewalks, walls and bathroom stalls.

Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone on “Jazz at Massey Hall”, which was recorded in 1953 by bassist Charles Mingus, and entered into Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995.

There is a sculpture of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker in his Kansas City, Missouri hometown.

For decades, an annual “21 Saxophone Salute” has been taking place at Charlie Parker’s grave on his birthday.