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David Schnitter

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David Schnitter is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979. He played with Freddie Hubbard from 1979 to 1981 and also worked with Frank Foster, Charles Earland, and Groove Holmes. He recorded for Muse Records from 1976 to 1981. Schnitter has been currently performing regularly at Smalls Jazz Club and Fat Cat in Manhattan, as well as touring in Europe. He has been on faculty at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music since 1994.

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Article: Live Review

Doug Webb at The Turning Point Cafe

Read "Doug Webb at The Turning Point Cafe" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


Doug Webb The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY September 28, 2015 The Monday Jazz Sessions, a fixture at The Turning Point Café since 2007, are a product of the dauntless efforts of series curator John Richmond. Among other responsibilities, Richmond books the musicians, publicizes the events, enthusiastically greets visitors, tends to ...

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Article: Live Review

David Schnitter at The Turning Point Cafe

Read "David Schnitter at The Turning Point Cafe" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


David Schnitter The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, New York June 2, 2008 David Schnitter ended a bracing, sixty-minute set at The Turning Point Cafe with a quote from “Auld Lang Syne." This brief digression was a jocular reminder that, for a jazz musician, “times gone by" aren't as important ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Dave Schnitter Quintet @ 46 Lounge Wed Jan 23rd All Gigs 7:30 - 10:30 No Cover, No Minimum

Dave Schnitter Quintet @ 46 Lounge Wed Jan 23rd All Gigs 7:30 - 10:30 No Cover, No Minimum

46 Lounge 300 Rt 46 East Totowa,NJ 07512 973-890-9699 all gigs 7:30 - 10:30pm Wed Jan 23 Dave Schnitter Quintet Dave Schnitter - tenor sax Dave Ginsberg - trumpet Steve LaSpina - bass Ed Alstrom - piano

Album

Penpals

Label: Munich Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Drone Tone, 2. And So They Say, 3. Waltz for Wayne, 4. Blues for John, 5. Song for Suzanne, 6. The Prankster, 7. St. Thomas, 8. My One and Only Love, 9. Blue Bossa, 10. Haggars Promise.

Album

Sketch

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Dili Dali; Sketch; For All We Know; Sooner or Later; All or Nothing at All; Flirtation with Faust; You Don't Know What Love Is; Sputnik

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Article: Extended Analysis

Dave Schnitter: Sketch

Read "Dave Schnitter: Sketch" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Dave Schnitter Sketch Sunnyside Records 2004 Not only did David Schnitter have the longest tenure of any tenor saxophonist in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers but he was always present on the most exciting and memorable of Bu's sets that I was privileged to catch. His return to music and recording ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Schnitter and Edgar van Asselt: Penpals

Read "Penpals" reviewed by Samuel Chell


In the late 1970's the Newport Jazz Festival programmed a Carnegie Hall concert featuring the groups of both Art Blakey and Horace Silver along with some all-star alumni guests. The impression of that concert that lingers with me to this day is the passionate and fiery if not show-stopping performance of Blakey's tenor man, David Schnitter. ...

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Article: Profile

Saxophonist Dave Schnitter

Read "Saxophonist Dave Schnitter" reviewed by Russ Musto


David Schnitter is the jazz world's forgotten messenger, a marvelous musician who just happened to be in the right place right before the right time. The 55 year old tenor saxophonist has yet to receive the recognition he deserves as a central figure in the reorganization and resurgence Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers underwent during the '70s, ...


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