Frank Wess — Tenor Saxophone, Flute. Led North, South, East.....Wess, Opus In Swing. Worked with Eddie Jones, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes.
Frank Wess's albums
Count Basie And His Band That Swings The Blues
Count Basie · 1956
Count Basie At Newport
Count Basie · 1957
The Saxophone Section With Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins · 1958
Basie
Count Basie · 1955
Frank Wess joined Count Basie's saxophone section in 1953 as a tenor player, but the thing he actually changed was the flute — an instrument big bands had written off as too quiet to carry. From inside the reed section on Basie (1955), and under his own name on Flutes & Reeds the same year, he made it a standard big-band voice and became a fixture in the DownBeat flute poll.