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Between 6,500 and 7,000 people attended the four-day music fest, with over 60% coming from all over the United States, as well as Canada and Europe.

But I always loved my father’s music, of course, and I loved the sound of the tenor sax as played by so many of the great tenor saxophonists in jazz. I thought my father was one of them, with John ...

Wyc Grousbeck: I had a band in college and stayed with [music] on and off. I met this guitarist, Dave Andonian. He’s a terrific guy. He was playing with a band.

Gordon spent a summer at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying Webern scores and playing sax in a funk band. “It became clear to me that I wasn’t going to be a jazz cat,” he said.

Carl Gordon Grubbs, an award-winning jazz saxophonist known for his melodic style who taught generations of students, died Jan. 5 at Mercy Medical Center. The Lochearn resident was 79.

Vuckovich returns to Yoshi’s in Oakland on Dec. 27 for a concert celebrating the centennial of tenor sax titan Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), whose 100th birthday passed quietly last Feb. 27.

That changes this week with the publication of the doorstop-sized tome named for his best-known work, Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins (784 pp., $35, Hachette Books).