Jesse “Tex” Powell (Baritone Sax) “Blow Man Blow” Jubilee Records.   Powell had an amazing career from the little research I’ve done.   Like his more famous contemporary, saxophonist King Curtis, he straddled the worlds of Jazz (he played with Coltrane in the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra and again in the Johnny Hodges Orchestra in the late forties/early fifties); R&B (he recorded as the Jesse Powell Orchestra with Bill Doggett before becoming the music director and house band leader at Jubilee/Josie Records and was an original member of the Cadillacs); Pop (he played with King Curtis behind some Bobby Darin hits); and Blues (he recorded with Champion Jack Dupree).

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