Also known as Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman Sr., Earle Lavon Freeman Sr.
American jazz saxophonist (1923–2012)
Tags
Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman Sr. (October 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, as a young child Freeman was exposed to jazz. His father, George, a city policeman, was a close friend of Louis Armstrong with Armstrong living at the Freeman house when he first arrived in Chicago. Freeman learned to play the saxophone as a child and at DuSable High School, where his band director was Walter Dyett. <a href="https://www.las
5 total works indexed
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
· 2017 · cited 16,480x
· 2007 · cited 16,468x
· 2018 · cited 15,410x
via Crossref · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).