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Crawford was born in Memphis and took up the piano aged nine, soon playing for his church choir. He began playing an alto saxophone his father had brought back from military service so that he could join the Manassas high school marching band, and later to play as an accompanist to King and others. These were the days in which Crawford and his fellow saxophonists would often find themselves walking bar-tops playing, or lying on their backs while...

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