Noah Howard has passed away unexpectedly on September 3, 2010, while vacationing in Southern France. He was one of the world’s leading alt saxophonists and a vanguard of the Free Jazz movement. Noah Howard was born in 1943 in New Orleans, the heartland of Jazz. Growing up in a city vibrating with Gospel and Dixieland, Noah performed as a young man with Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong. Becoming a driver of the early Free Jazz movement Noah quickly developed into one of the world’s most celebrated a …