Don Rendell

For more than half a century, English saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and arranger Don Rendell was a leading light in British jazz circles, and proved exceptionally influential among modernists and subsequent generations of players. While he played with a who's-who of British jazz musicians from the late 1940s onward, and led his own bands from 1955 until 2002, it was the quintet he co-led with trumpeter/composer Ian Carr -- they released five albums between 1965 and 1969 -- that established him as a bona fide legend. Rendell's instantly recognizable tone was influenced by ...