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Thursday July 28th: Saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Frank Foster passed away Tuesday July 26th, at the age of 82. Born in Cincinnati in 1928, his first forays into music were on piano and clarinet before he took up saxophone. After a tour of duty in the army during the Korean War, Foster joined the Count Basie orchestra.

His tenor saxophone contributions as well as arrangements and compositions for the orchestra helped define its sound from the mid 1950s through early 1960s. Notable was Foster’s composition "Shiny Stockings" which appeared on Basie’s album April in Paris and subsequently became a jazz standard.

Outside of his work with the Basie orchestra, Foster performed and recorded with several other big bands including those of Woody Herman, Clark Terry and Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. Foster soon became highly regarded as a bandleader in his own right with his group The Loud Minority Big Band and eventually returned to the Basie orchestra to lead the band into the mid 1990s. Foster also did small ensemble work, notably with Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine and his own the Non-Electric Company. Foster was named an National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2002 and continued to compose and arrange throughout his life.

In memorial of his life and work WKCR will bring you the music of Frank Foster for 24 hours beginning at midnight on Thursday July 28th.

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