Gene Dinwiddie

Gene Dinwiddie (born Charles Eugene Dinwiddie;[1] September 19, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States – January 11, 2002 in La Puente, Los Angeles, California, aged 65[2]), was an American blues saxophonist, who is best known as a member of the Butterfield Blues Band.

Dinwiddie had played since the 1950s in both jazz and blues until, in 1967, the Butterfield Blues Band added a horn section.

In this he remained until the band broke up in 1971, and afterwards he was still a member of the Butterfield Band spinoff group, Full Moon.

King, Paul Butterfield, Gregg Allman, Melissa Manchester and Jackie Lomax.

He can be heard, for example, on Etta James' Stickin' to My Guns (1990).