Grover Washington was a popular American jazz saxophonist, with a style reflecting soul-jazz and jazz funk, as well as a songwriter, throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Buffalo, New York, on December 12, 1943, to Grover Washington Sr., a tenor saxophonist, and Lillian Washington, a church chorister. Washington was surrounded by musicians, including a brother who was an organist in church choirs and another brother who played the drums. At the age of 8, Washington’s father gave him a…