Chicago has lost another tenor sax great. Eddie Johnson was eighty-nine and joins Chicago’s pantheon of tenor jazz masters: Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, Eddie Harris, Clifford Jordan. Eddie died on April 7, 2010. He played up until 2004, when his sweet swinging horn gave way to emphysema. Like many Chicago jazzicians, Eddie chose family over the perils of road life and fame. He had an offer to join Duke Ellington’s band in the Forties, but went with the more lucrative jump blues gig with Louis J
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