Four tenors by Michael Harvey

Hardwood with Portland stone base

This carved, full-size tenor saxophone commemorates four great jazz musicians who played the instrument: Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Zoot Sims and Stan Getz. Their familiar names – Hawk, Prez, Zoot, Getz – fit neatly onto the four-sided stone base.

“I imagined the wood weathering, imitating the battle-worn ‘axes’ (as they called their instruments), through which these American musicians breathed passion, tenderness and joy.”