Leon Washington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leon Diamond Washington was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Mississippi, Washington grew up in Chicago from the age of three. He started on clarinet before moving on to tenor saxophone, and studied under Santy Runyon. After finishing high school, he played professionally from 1926, joining Zinky Cohn's band and recording with Frankie Franko and Bernie Young & the Creolians . He played with Carroll Dickerson from 1934-35 at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, then played briefly with Louis Armstrong in 1935.
