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DATE: SUNDAY, March 17, 1991                   TAG: 9103170104
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHICAGO                                LENGTH: Short

SAXOPHONIST LAWRENCE FREEMAN DIES

Lawrence Freeman, who helped make Chicago the jazz capital of the Roaring '20s, died Friday of cancer at age 84.

Freeman, a tenor saxophone player, was the last surviving member of the "Austin High Gang," a group that forged the Chicago jazz sound of the 1920s.

The group included such future jazz stars as cornetist Jimmy McPartland, who died Wednesday, clarinetist Frank Teschemacher and drummer Dave Tough. The group expanded to include musicians who didn't attend Austin High: Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon and Gene Krupa.

Freeman played with a series of swing bands in the 1930s, including those of Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. From the late '30s on, he usually led his own band. - Associated Press

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