Samuel Leroy Taylor, a.k.a. Sam "The Man", was an American jazz and blues saxophonist (tenor, baritone), born July 12, 1916 in Lexington, Tennessee, died October 5, 1990 in Lexington, Tennessee. He worked with Scat Man Crothers (late 1930's), Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder (early 1940s), Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.