Dick Heckstall-Smith: Sax Blue
Harry Shapiro, Blue Print, December 1997
DICK HECKSTALL-Smith is one of the greatest R&B saxophonists in the world. His musical career started at university, in Cambridge, and he has played with the Greats of British jazz, blues and R&B including Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, Jon Hiseman, John Mayall, Graham Bond and Alexis Korner, on and off, for over forty years.
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