What do you say to Mick Jagger when he calls up and asks you to join the Rolling Stones? “Let me check my day planner”? “Sorry, Mick, I’ve got a tapestry-making webinar that week”? (I’m riffing here.) No, when Mick Jagger calls, you’re on the next plane out of town. I don’t care if he’s 103 years old—it’s the Rolling Stones. San Diego–based saxophonist Karl Denson got that call from Mick Jagger, or Skype call as it were, and Denson is now the Rolling Stones’ newest live member. For 30 years, he’s been blowing brawny, golden plumes of sax and flute. He’s a true master who’s seen time with Lenny Kravitz, the Greyboy Allstars, and Slightly Stoopid. His own band, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, hurls a multi-horned charge of jazz, funk, rock, and very infectious boogie…
