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Jazz Material!!

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Hellooo SOTW!!

Have been playing sax for 11 years now and playing/listening to jazz for about 3-4 years and have learnt so much already...
Basically I just wanted to know what jazz musicians/saxophonists people listen to who they find inspiring...i listen to a wide range already, including grover washington jr., gerald Albright, Charlie Parker (of course!) etc... but i was just wondering whether there were any others that i maybe haven't come across yet...

Also if anyone could recommend any good 'jazz books' that i could read just to learn a bit more about the subject... and lastly any playing material i should try out, i mean i can play through the real books but anything else maybe that anyone has found interesting/challenging/enjoyable to play??

Thanks everyone, hope to hear from some people,

Tom
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The Charlie Parker Ominibook is pretty much a standard. It's referred to as the "bebop bible" because it contains many solos from one of the primary inventors of the bebop language. Make sure to get the Eb version though, even if you play tenor. You want to see what Bird was actually thinking.
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