Jazz breaking news: Basie Arranger Saxophonist Frank Foster Dies
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Best known as an arranger and saxophonist in an era when big bands ruled the roost on the jazz scene Frank Foster, whose name was synonymous with the Count Basie Orchestra, one of the greatest swinging big bands of them all, died yesterday aged 82.
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