It's John Gilmore Day‏

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John Gilmore, tenor saxophonist, 
born this day in Summit, Mississippi
in 1925.

John Coltrane thought so much of Gilmore
after hearing him play, that he had 
Gilmore give him a lesson!

Here is Gilmore, with Cliff Jordan, playing 
Let it Stand from the 1957 album "Blowing in
from Chicago."

Video: Clifford Jordan, tenor sax; John 
Gilmore, tenor sax; Horace Silver, piano; 
Curly Russell, bass 

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