Paul Gonsalves on the Road
    by Marilyn Lester     Duke Ellington saxophonist Paul Gonsalves was assured his place in American music history with one giddy, roller coaster ride of a performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. That's when Gonsalves blew an epic 27-chorus bridge between Ellington's 1930 "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" that nearly incited a […]