Mark,

You mean other than KennyG?(expletive deleted)

Because of Coltrane, soprano sax was added to the mix of instruments that reed players were expected to play. Coltrane's interest in the instrument came directly from Bechet--though jazz fans tend to keep the two separate, a lot of the raw energy in Trane's music seems to me to have come from Bechet--also, though he used really different scale and melodic material, the rhythmic ideas he used seem (to me) to be solidly connected to Bechet--