Harold Land, Jr. has toured Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America with Jazz and Funk legends such as Marvin Gaye, Roy Ayers, Gerald Wilson, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, Pharoah Sanders, Lee ...

Until 1954 Harold Land was a relatively unknown tenor saxophonist. He experienced a surge in his standing with the release of Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Emarcy 1954) when he was part of this ...

Harold Land, a tenor saxophonist with a forthright sound who was a key figure in several vital jazz groups dating to the 1950s and a strong presence in the L.A. jazz scene, died Friday. He was 72.

The late Harold Land is known primarily as an early member of one of the most imposing bands of the late bop era—the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet. Sandwiched between those two titans, Land might ...

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Mr. Land suffered a stroke Friday at his home and died at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in West Los Angeles, said a friend, Clint Rosemond. Born Dec. 18, 1928, in Houston, Mr. Land grew up in San ...