Maurice James Simon is a jazz saxophonist.
A high school classmate of Eric Dolphy Simon appears on an early 1945 Los Angeles recording in a band led by Russell Illinois Jacquet and which also included Teddy Edwards, Charles Mingus, Bill Davis and Chico Hamilton.
In 1948, again with Jacquet as leader, Simon was in an all-star band recording in Detroit, which included Sonny Stitt, Leo Parker, Sir Charles Thompson, Al Lucas and Shadow Wilson.
He went on to join the Gerald Wilson Orchestra which als...
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