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About Sandro Azzolini
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Sandro Azzolini
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in memory Sandro Azzolini.
Sandro Azzolini, born in Florence. He begins to the age of ten years the study of the guitar and the flute passing to the alto sax. He completes classics studies of sax at the School of Music of Fiesole under the guide of Master Luca di Volo, and attends lessons of History of Music from the Prof. Franco Piperno of the University of Florence. He participates to the Seminaries of Improvisation of the Dutch cello player Tristan Honsinger. Oriented to free jazz, partly due to his studies and interests in philosophy and history, he combined a metaphysical and visionary view of his instrument.
About Ikechi Onyenaka
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Ikechi Onyenaka
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Ikechi Onyenaka is a 26-year-old American jazz-neo soul saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and recording artist from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania on the rise in the Philly music scene. Although his primary instrument is the alto saxophone, he also plays the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, piano, keyboard, bass, and drums. As a saxophonist and songwriter, he takes a wide range of influences from the likes of Grover Washington Jr, Kenny Garrett, Robert Glasper, Stevie Wonder, and J Cole. Through emotionally driven saxophone melodies, atmospheric piano chords, and immaculate bass lines, Ikechi Onyenaka has truly created his own lane in modern jazz with his original music.
About Albert Rivera
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Albert Rivera
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Contemporary, smooth, and eclectic – three words that just begin to describe Albert Rivera, “a modern Jazz Messenger” with one of the most exciting and sought-after saxophone sounds in today’s jazz scene. His four albums, Re-Introduction, Inner Peace (Turnaround Records) Back At It and Live at the Litchfield Jazz Festival (Truth Revolution Records) was warmly embraced by critics, who call Albert and his bandmates,“ young artists who are part of the next wave in this jazz ritual.” (Downbeat Magazine) Albert Rivera’s musical journey began at the prestigious Laguardia High School in New York City and continued throughout the summers at the Litchfield Jazz Camp
About Yiannis Papanastasiou
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Yiannis Papanastasiou
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Yiannis Papanastasiou is an alto & soprano saxophonist, an educator and a composer who lives in Athens. He studied jazz saxophone at the Athenaeum Conservatory and has been an active member of the Greek jazz scene since 1997, performing & recording with the Yiannis Papanastasiou Quartet & Trio, Buzz Sextet, Jazz Upstairs Orchestra, Paraskevas Kitsos Sextet, Pocket Band Quintet, Apostolo Kalt Orchestra, Buzz Bastardz, Lito Voyiatzoglou Quartet, Oh! My Garden, Apurimac, many other bands, world renowned musicians and has appeared in several albums.
Yiannis is an astute musician, a fine composer, a versatile saxophonist who has played in various contexts and is at home with bebop, hard bop, cool and modal jazz. His sound is distinctive with an intense level of heartfelt expression and soulfulness. He is an adventurous improviser with a great sense of humor which is portrayed in his playing.
About Amy E. Denio
Instrument: Multi-instrumentalist
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Amy E. Denio
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Denio (rhymes with ‘Ohio’ or ‘gennaio’) is a multi- instrumentalist composer and singer based in Hansville, WA. Home-taper since the Dark Ages of Analogue, she started her label Spoot Music in 1986, with the release of her first cassette, ‘No Bones.’ Since then, she’s recorded & released over 60 cassettes, LPs and CDs created solo and with an array of international musicians. Her parents played jazz semi-professionally, and she grew up in a musical household. She was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in 2015. An award-winning composer, she has been creating & producing soundscores for dance, theater and film since 1983
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Mark Lewis
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Seattle area native Mark Lewis is a well-traveled saxophonist and flutist who has created a large body of jazz music over the past four decades. He’s been a part of jazz scenes from Seattle and San Francisco to Rotterdam and Paris. His latest album, Naked Animals, was recorded in 1990 with his Quartet from the Netherlands. It's an important historical recording of a working neo-bop Quartet that had an enthusiastic following for more than a decade. His 2017 release The New York Session features piano legend George Cables, veteran bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Victor Lewis. Mark was rated number two for alto saxophone (after Richie Cole) and number three for flute (after Charles Lloyd and Hubert Laws) in the 39th Annual Jazz Station Awards for his work on this album.
About Inigo Galdeano Lasheras
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Inigo Galdeano Lasheras
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Inigo is a versatile Spanish born jazz saxophonist. After graduating from two of the most prestigious music schools, Berklee College of Music and Indiana University, he moved to New York City to continue his successful career as a jazz saxophonist. He currently leads his own quartet with prominent musicians of the contemporary jazz scene and collaborates with a myriad of bands of different jazz styles, with whom he plays both local and internationally.