death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
24 september 1961 blind river , ontario , canada kingston , ontario , canada canadian 22 december 1905 artchristmas.jpg art christmas
 art christmas dance band and jazz musician
art christmas

art christmas -lrb- december 22 , 1905september 24 , 1961 -rrb- was a canadian dance band and jazz musician .
for many years during the exciting dance band and jazz era of the 1920s , 1930s and 1940s , art christmas was often said to be britain 's leading saxophone player and multi-instrumentalist .
in the 1930s and 1940s , young musicians in their teens and early twenties would follow art all over britain listening to him play and trying to copy his style , especially on alto saxophone .
