Grover Washington Jr.: Taking the Jazz World by Storm

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #022, The Philadelphia Sound, Part 3

Grover Washington Jr. was from Buffalo, New York, where he started playing local clubs as a teenager.  After going through his Coltrane phase, he settled back into a warmer, friendlier sound that developed into "smooth jazz".  His horn became the Sound of Philadelphia.  He died far too young.