Paul Gonsalves, American saxophonist (died 1974)

Paul Gonsalves

American jazz saxophonist (1920–1974)

Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue," a performance credited with…