Dick Heckstall-Smith has been played on NTS in shows including Rare Species w/ John Tiangco, featured first on 22 November 2022. Songs played include Born To Be Blue.

Dick Heckstall-Smith (September 16, 1934 – December 17, 2004) was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most important English blues-rock and jazz-rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s - including Blues Incorporated (Alexis Korner's groundbreaking blues group), the Graham Bond Organisation (in the lineup that included bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker), John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, and the pioneering UK jazz-rock band Colosseum.

Heckstall-Smith was born Richard Malden Heckstall-Smith in…