Donald Walden

Tenor mastery

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 10/1/2006

Donald Walden may not want to be reminded that he has been playing the saxophone for almost half a century, but there is no other way that one can attain the musical depth he demonstrates every time he takes the stage. Some years ago I heard him in Detroit with Teddy Edwards, one of the masters of bop tenor saxophone, who was then seventy but was playing better

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