Yesterday I posted 10 audio clips by tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest. Among them was Night Train, a blues Forrest recorded in 1951 that became a big jukebox hit in '52 and beyond as others covered the ...

Big-toned tenor saxophonists were nurtured, as a rule, in the big bands of the Thirties and Forties. Jimmy Forrest, known for his huge hit “Night Train,” was featured in the orchestras of Andy Kirk ...

The 1962-63 world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston often trained to the sound of saxophonist Jimmy Forrest’s “Night Train”, a huge rhythm and blues hit in 1952.

At five seconds to 8 p.m. on a Sunday night, he cued the intro from a famous old Jimmy Forrest track. It started the show, as it has every week since the first Sunday of January 1977.