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	Wardell Gray: Mysterious Death of a Tenorman
		Gray was born in Oklahoma, making him one of a handful of "western swing" players whose style was characterized by a full and open tone as well as a relaxed but fiercely swinging improvisational style.
		Gray, who was looked up to almost as much as Parker, acted as a role model for younger musicians by not using heroin and telling anyone who would listen that drug use was not the way to become a better player.
		Wardell Gray was a hit with the group; more than one reviewer commented on his playing as the focal point of the group.
	www.jazzitude.com /wardellgray_01.htm (1061 words)

	Wardell Gray Biography : Oldies.com
		Gray made some successful recordings with Gordon, among them "The Chase" and "The Hunt", and also composed a number of tunes himself, including "Twisted", which, with lyrics added, became popular with vocalese singers.
		Gray's tone was soft and he played light, flowing lines that reflected the influence Lester Young had upon him.
		Gray died on 25 May 1955 in circumstances that have never been fully resolved: his body was found in the Nevada Desert, his neck broken.
	www.oldies.com /artist-biography/Wardell-Gray.html (224 words)

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		The commonly accepted story, boosted by the official cause of death report, is that Gray had succumbed to the lure of heroin and either overdosed, resulting in his body being dumped in the desert to keep the Moulin Rouge from being implicated, or that he had been involved in a drug deal that went bad.
		While Gray's sermons against drug use to younger musicians and the testimony of many collegues that Gray was a lifelong non-user don't disprove this, they certainly make it seem somewhat unlikely.
		Whether Gray somehow provoked a racist individual or group by his mere presence or was in the wrong place at the wrong time, it does not stretch the imagination too much to see how something like this could have happened.
	www.jazzitude.com /wardellgray_02.htm (848 words)

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		This was never truer that when Gordon and Gray went into the Dial Studio on Thursday June 12, 1947, and recreated some of the heat they generated in the after-hours clubs with the two-sided masterpiece named coincidentally enough 'The Chase'.
		Gray’s solos are nothing less than spellbinding (quoting past triumphs like Twisted’;) and Criss illustrates how the all encompassing influence of Bird, in the right hands was a wonderful thing.
		As far as Gray's work as a sideman, his sides with Dameron and Navarro are available on a Blue Note collection, and his work with the Benny Goodman band was on CD but is currently out of print (aside from selected compilation cuts).
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	village voice > home > Voice Jazz Supplement: Song of the Thin Man by Stuart Mitchner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wardell Gray could never have read "The White Negro" because the dangers he lived with killed him at 34, less than a year after the Melody Maker interview.
		He was not expected to eat in the dining room, however, nor permitted to enter through the main entrance, and he had to room apart from the others in a house in the fl district.
		He didn't die from overdose of drugs, he died because he was left in the desert with his neck broken." Dorothy Gray reads aloud from some of the letters he wrote to her between 1950 and his death.
	www.villagevoice.com /home/0323,mitchner,44581,23.html (1259 words)

	Wardell Gray : Live in Hollywood - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The contributions of Wardell Gray are often overlooked due to his premature death from a drug overdose in 1955, but this promising tenor saxophonist caught the ears of fellow West Coast musicians.
		Gray is joined by trumpeter Art Farmer, pianist Hampton Hawes, bassist Joe Mondragon, and drummer Shelly Manne, making up a powerful quintet.
		Wardell Gray takes top solo honors, but not by much.
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	Way Out Wardell: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		At this time in his short career, Gray was starting his ascent and would achieve lasting fame in tenor sax history.
		The recorded sound on the album is tinny, given that it was recorded in a hall, and the echo is distracting.
		He had that effortless tone of Lester Young, and was full with the fire of bop at the same time.
	www.music.com /release/way_out_wardell/1 (392 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wardell Gray Memorial, Vol. 1: Music: Wardell Gray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wardell Gray was a giant of bop tenor playing, improvising lines that combined some of the relaxed flow of Lester Young with the kinetic invention of Charlie Parker.
		His tenor duels with Dexter Gordon are the stuff of legend, as is his mysterious death, his body dumped unceremoniously on the outskirts of Las Vegas in 1955.
		The first volume of Gray's recordings for Prestige provides a complete anatomy of a 1949 quartet session with the superb rhythm section of pianist Al Haig, bassist Tommy Potter, and drummer Roy Haynes, a unit then working regularly with Charlie Parker.
	www.amazon.ca /Wardell-Gray-Memorial-Vol-1/dp/B000000Y33 (247 words)

	Wardell Gray: The Hard Bop Homepage
		The death of Wardell Gray has not been completely cleared up but it is not for us to attempt to solve any mysteries here.
		Carter has always had great admiration for Wardell's playing and Benny is not lavish with praise for many of the modern jazzmen.
		When Wardell came to New York in 1948 to become part of the Benny Goodman Sextet you could hear the shift to Charlie Parker's influence.
	www.members.tripod.com /~hardbop/wgray.html (503 words)

	Amazon.com: Wardell Gray Memorial, Vol. 2: Music: Wardell Gray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In his brief career from the mid-'40s to his death in 1955, tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray was one of the essential voices in jazz, an avatar of bop who recorded with musicians from Benny Goodman to Charlie Parker, Ivory Joe Hunter to Billy Eckstine.
		It's always exciting to discover a new (to these ears) jazz artist and this CD will prove to be a real treat for tenor sax fans as Wardell Gray blows with the best of them in various quartet, quintet, sextet and septet settings recorded between 1950 and 1952.
		I'd refer to Wardell Gray as an unsung great as he is an outstanding player which many people may not have even heard of which is too bad, and unfortunately, their loss.
	www.amazon.com /Wardell-Gray-Memorial-Vol-2/dp/B000000Y35 (786 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wardell Gray Story: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wardell Gray was acknowledged to be one of the finest tenor saxophonists in jazz.
		Gray is also heard with the Tadd Dameron band, again with Navarro.
		Gray did record some later stuff that is not here, he died in 1956, but what is here is marvellous.
	www.amazon.com /Wardell-Gray-Story/dp/B000083EHW (824 words)

	Wardell Gray - Memorial, Vol. 2 - Vinyl Record
		The legendary West Coast jam sessions of the late Forties and early Fifties often pitted Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon in friendly combat.
		Trumpeter Clark Terry, then a member of the Count Basie sextet and Wardell, and Los Angeles alto saxophonist Sonny Criss are the other prominent jammers.
		Gray's sextet sides from 1951 served to introduce Art Farmer to the jazz public at large as both player and composer.
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	WARDELL GRAY - TENOR SAX (10'' VINYL LP) - Musicdirect
		Wardell Gray, one of the hardest swinging tenor men in modern jazz, was (like many others of the time) making a personal synthesis of Lester Young and Charlie Parker.
		Even when his sound was cool, his beat was hot and his lines always lissome.
		A Sinner Kissed An Angel, Blue Gray, Grayhound and Treadin’ with Gray, Phil Hill, John Richardson and Art Mardigan (April 1950).
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	Wardell Gray Story -box Albums, CDs, Vinyl Records and LPs
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	Wardell Gray - AOL Music
		Overview of the life, career, and mysterious death of Wardell Gray, one of the best tenor sax players of the bebop era.
		The death of Wardell Gray has not been completely cleared up but it is...
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	The Bebop Shop Wardell Gray
		Wardell Gray: Memorial Vol.1 (CD: Prestige/ Fantasy- US Import)
		Wardell Gray, one of the hardest swinging tenor men in modern jazz,; was (like many others of the time) making a personal synthesis of Lester Young and Charlie Parker.; Even when his sound was cool, his beat was hot and his lines always lissome.
		Wardell Gray: Memorial Vol.2 (CD: Prestige/ Fantasy- US Import)
	www.thebebopshop.com /acatalog/The_Bebop_Shop_Wardell_Gray_50.html (101 words)

	Wardell Gray : One for Prez - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Wardell Gray : One for Prez - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		On November 23, 1946, tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray recorded five numbers with pianist Dodo Marmarosa, bassist Red Callender and drummer Chuck Thompson.
		This CD has 16 performances in all, the original five tunes plus 11 alternate takes (including five versions of "How High the Moon," which was retitled at the time as "One For Prez").
	www.thefrontlinez.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,95106,00.html (173 words)

	Wardell Gray \| internet radio on icebergradio.com
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		Ironically, Wardell Gray, who in the late '40s was an inspiration to some younger musicians due to his opposition to drug use, himself became involved in drugs and died mysteriously in Las Vegas on May 25, 1955, when he was just 34.
	www.icebergradio.com /performer/6611/wardell-gray (291 words)

	AL HAIG - MEETS MASTER BOP SAXES: WARDELL GRAY AND STAN GETZ
		AL HAIG - MEETS MASTER BOP SAXES: WARDELL GRAY AND STAN GETZ
		MEETS MASTER BOP SAXES: WARDELL GRAY AND STAN GETZ
		Personnel: Clyde Lombardi, Wardell Gray, Tiny Kahn, Jimmy Raney, Tommy Potter, Charlie Perry, Terry Swope, Roy Haynes, Stan Getz, Gene Ramey, Carlos Vidal
	www.worldsrecords.com /pages/artists/h/haig_al/al_haig_27488.html (63 words)

	ACHOCKABLOG: Wardell Gray
		He'd taken in an Amazon box while we were out this morning.
		Inside, the 4CD box-set The Wardell Gray Story, fantastic value.
		And Dreamweaver MX: Advanced PHP Web Development, which should keep me busy over the second week of the Easter holiday!
	www.achuka.co.uk /achockablog/archives/000009.html (59 words)

	Wardell Gray MP3 Downloads - Wardell Gray Music Downloads - Wardell Gray Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		His Lester Young-influenced tone made his playing attractive to swing musicians as...
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	Wardell Gray Music CDs or Listen to Wardell Gray Free
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	Wardell Gray on Rhapsody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	Rolling Stone : Wardell Gray : Music Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	How High the Moon by Wardell Gray
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