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After Stan Getz, Desmond is/was one of the best Bossa Nova style jazz sax players, but his work w/ Dave Brubeck is absolutely sublime.
Quote from his last show with Dave Brubeck, with the full knowledge that he was dying of lung cancer after a lifetime of 3-packs a day of Pall Malls: "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, my liver. Pristine, perfect. One of the great livers of our time. Awash in Dewar's and full of health!"
 
old skool

these guys were the shit

 
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