Charlie Rouse

Charlie Rouse was an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Washington, D.C., who began his professional career in the 1940s and worked primarily within the bebop and hard bop traditions. His playing combined a strong, rhythmic tenor tone with blues-inflected phrasing and angular melodic lines, and he spent much of his career as a sideman before leading his own groups, contributing to the development of postwar modern jazz.