FAREWELLS

, a tenor and soprano saxophonist who played fusion and bop with equal brawny authority, died of cardiac arrest Aug. 13 at Glen Cove Hospital on Long Island, N.Y. He was 69. Grossman burst onto the jazz scene in 1969 as the 18-year-old soprano saxist in Miles Davis’ newly formed band—one of the most coveted gigs in jazz—that stunned the world with its moody experiments in fusing jazz and rock. Once established on