Always Burning Bright

Friends and Bandmates Celebrate Seattle's Legendary Improv Saxophonist Wally Shoupby Dave SegalWally Shoup's music is not for everybody, to put it lightly. But for those who have connected with it, the late Seattle saxophonist's free-flowing sound is pure, beneficent energy, and the man behind it was a powerful inspiration to young, adventurous musicians.
In improv-music circles, Shoup—who passed away on March 5—was a colossus of sound, visual art, and philosophical essays on music.