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Sal Lozano

Southern California native, Sal Lozano has recently released his first CD which is available here! He is a featured member of bands led by such notable composers as Johnny Mandel, Tom Kubis, and can be heard with Gordon Goodwin's critically acclaimed Grammy Award Winning Big Phat Band. A few of the artists Sal has also recorded with include Paul McCartney, Natalie Cole, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Lalo Schifrin, Brian McKnight, Michael Buble, Keely Smith, Barbra Streisand, Joey DeFrancesco, and Maynard Ferguson.

Sal has been a member of the Dancing with the Stars House Band, the American Idol House Band, and the Academy Awards Orchestra along with numerous other television and commercial credits. He has also performed at the Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. and as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony, The San Diego Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Sal can be heard on numerous movie soundtracks including Straight Outa Compton, Joy, National Treasure, Legally Blonde, Public Enemies, Just like Heaven, Happy Feet, Phineas and Ferb the last three Star Trek movies and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, to name a few. He frequently occupies the principal chair at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles as well as the Pasadena Playhouse. Shows include Follies, Sleepless in Seattle, The Drowsy Chaperone, Chicago, The Producers, and Edward Scissorhands.

Sal is currently a Professor of Saxophone at California State University,

Long Beach and conducts clinics and master classes across the country. He is also a clinician for Disney'sPerforming Arts Workshops at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Ca as well as Disney's All American College Band at Disneyland.

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Steve Rawlins: Word on the Street

Read "Word on the Street" reviewed by Don Ball


Steve Rawlins has been known as more of a behind-the-scenes kind of guy than a band's frontman for the past few decades, but that may be changing with his release Word on the Street. Rawlins is accredited for his work as an arranger and musical director for artists such as Smokey Robinson, Bette Midler, and Chaka Khan, as well as for television programs such as The Merv Griffin Show, The John Davidson Show, and Academy Award and Emmy Award ceremonies. ...

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Larry McCray: Heartbreak City

Read "Heartbreak City" reviewed by Ron Kalb


Larry McCray's Heartbreak City, released on Keeping the Blues Alive Records, is steeped in grit, anguish, resilience and hard-won joy. The album reflects the life of a working-class blues man who sharpened his craft in the clubs of Saginaw after shifts on the General Motors assembly line, before touring nationally and eventually across Europe with Albert Collins. Every track carries the emotional weight of decades spent earning success the hard way, drawing deeply from McCray's Arkansas roots while sounding fully ...

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Judy Whitmore: Let's Fall in Love

Read "Let's Fall in Love" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Polymath Judy Whitmore has taken time away from her busy and productive career(s) to record her fifth album, Let's Fall in Love, and like the first four, it is a smooth and delightful tour of memorable themes from the Great American Songbook, sung with radiance and heart by one of the leading exponents of popular song on today's scene. Whitmore does not sing jazz (no scatting or improvising here); she leaves that in the capable hands of ...

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Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters celebrate Clark Terry: CT!

Read "CT!" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


In jazz, where the past intertwines with the present and the future, few figures were as influential as the legendary trumpeter Clark Terry. During his playing career, he developed a creative, bouncy style with an irrepressible rhythmic verve that was entirely his own. The album CT! with baritone saxophonist Adam Schroeder and arranger Mark Masters serves as a heartfelt homage to this jazz icon, presenting fresh and invigorating arrangements of 13 Clark Terry originals skillfully performed by a 12-piece ensemble. ...

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Jeremy Cohen: Raymond Scott Reimagined

Read "Raymond Scott Reimagined" reviewed by Walter Atkins


Raymond Scott Reimagined is an engaging collaborative project with Quartet San Francisco, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band and the Grammy winning acapella group Take 6 on two tracks. The album is a thoughtful and stylish interpretation of Raymond Scott's legacy. It is also interspersed with audio tidbits featuring Scott's singular musical approaches. The album kicks off with the enticing “Powerhouse," familiar to anyone who has watched a Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon. “Toy Trumpet" is a tasty composition ...

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Brian Eisenberg Jazz Orchestra: Pain & Beauty

Read "Pain & Beauty" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A religious man at heart, composer/band leader and producer Brian Eisenberg leads an 18-piece big band (The Brian Eisenberg Jazz Orchestra) on a personal musical exploration on the meaning of love through the perspective of what may be beautiful, and what may seem hurtful on the very introspective and challenging Pain & Beauty. The album, as he writes, “is dedicated to that ideal of genuine love...painful yet, beautiful love." Eisenberg sets the musical bar quite high on such lofty and ...

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Richard Williams: Hollywood Christmas

Read "Hollywood Christmas" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


Ready or not, Christmas music is on the way. And this is Christmas music, old school. Do you remember The Andy Williams Christmas Album? Then, as the old joke goes, there may be fire in the hearth, but snow on the roof, because that was 1963, at least the first version. This recording, for sure, is a walk down memory lane and will produce a lot of nostalgia in listeners of a certain age. For some folks, that ...

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Primary Instrument

Saxophone

Location

Los Angeles

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

For the last nine years I've been an adjunct professor of Saxophone at Cal State Univ Long Beach.

Clinic/Workshop Information

"Throughout the year it is a pleasure for me to travel to schools, colleges or universities and conduct clinics. One of the things I talk about is how to quickly go from rehearsal to performance mode. An easily overlooked concept. One of the ways to get from one to the other is to immediately find your mistakes and work through them

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Word on the Street

Self Produced
2026

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Let's Fall in Love

Self Produced
2025

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Heartbreak City

Keeping the Blues Alive Records
2025

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CT!

Capri Records
2024

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Improvisatory...

Blue Canoe Records
2024

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Improvisatory...

Blue Canoe Records
2024

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Improvisatory Observatory

From: Improvisatory Observatory: Live...
By Sal Lozano

Serenade to a Bus Seat

From: CT!
By Sal Lozano

Cutey and the Dragon

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Sal Lozano

Toy Trumpet

From: Raymond Scott Reimagined
By Sal Lozano

The Reset

From: The Reset
By Sal Lozano

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