’Round Midnight

…saxophonist in the 1986 film Round Midnight won him an Academy Award nomination; he also appeared in the film Awakenings (1990).

…Tavernier’s 1986 jazz film ’Round Midnight. Higgins then cofounded the World Stage, a Los Angeles storefront arts centre where he enticed noted jazz musicians to perform and teach; he also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Though liver disease curtailed his career in the 1990s, he resumed…