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Harold Land

tenor saxophone · 1928–2001 · Houston (Texas)

Hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist with a dark, emotional sound. He joined the Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet in 1954, then led his own groups in Los Angeles and taught at UCLA from 1996.

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