Word: sax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were once considered "flashes in the pan." They are now the superstars of the late 80's. Who would ever think two years ago that Toronto's Jesse Barfield would lead the majors last year in homeruns with 40? Who would have said that Dodger second baseman Steve Sax would hit .332 in 1986? Or that Kirby Puckett would bang out 31 round-trippers...
...Steve Sax (Los Angeles Dodgers...
Marriage, and training in tooth repair and extraction at Temple University, soon followed, with Stan sitting in with this band or that to earn some money while he learned his trade. Stan plays alto sax, clarinet and flute. For a few weeks in 1939, he actually played with the Glenn Miller. And before his education was done, he had also played with Jack Teagarden and Maynard Ferguson. Then for 38 years he was a dentist and anesthesiologist in Hempstead, on Long Island. He produced two books, Amnesia-Analgesia, Techniques in Dentistry, and Pain and Anxiety Control in Dentistry, neither...
...Stan got up a band. Chester Triplett, an oral surgeon from nearby Naples, took over the skins. Tom Werth, a librarian, took a tenor sax, as did Bill Russell, a retired railroad dispatcher. Pam Dane, a senior in high school, threw in with the geezers on alto sax, as did Pam's chum Diana Macumber, who blows a baritone saxophone. Corbin Wyant, publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops...
...band members credit saxophonist Hill with much of the group's developing style. "A good sax is like a vitamin," Axelrod says...