Jazz Breaking News: Saxophonist Von Freeman dies age 88

Thursday, August 16, 2012

One of the last of the original hipsters and a icon of old school values that embraced the concept of stentorian individual expression (somewhat devalued in today’s overcrowded era of internet-fed egalitarianism), tenor saxophonist Earl Lavon Freeman left us early last Sunday morning, 12 August for the cosmic jam session beyond the clouds.

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