associated_acts years_active notable_instruments birth_place label background instrument birth_date article_title name
mark simmonds ' freeboppers 1970s-2000 saxophone christchurch , new zealand birdland records non_vocal_instrumentalist saxophone 1955 mark simmonds -lrb- saxophonist -rrb-
 mark simmonds
mark simmonds -lrb- saxophonist -rrb-

mark simmonds is an australian jazz tenor saxophonist , composer , and leader of the group the freeboppers .
born in christchurch , new zealand in 1955 , he moved to sydney , australia when he was 10 years old .
