Results for "saxophone, alto"

Olivier Bogé

Born: June 29, 1981

Pete Gallio

Nicola Fazzini

Born: August 19, 1970

Nicola Fazzini is a saxophonist and composer originally from Milan, now Venetian resident.  With an established live musical experience in Italy and abroad, he appears in several recordings and has collaborated with internationally renowned musicians like Enrico Rava, Peter Erskine, and emerging talents like Miles Okazaki, Amir ElSaffar, and Samuel Blaser.  For years he’s been devoting himself to pursue innovative and experimental musical projects (XY Quartet, Hyper+, CREI).  He also worked as an educator with the University Ca’ Foscari and as an artistic director with many other institutions for special projects (Jazz Area Metropolitana, File Jazz Festival, Musicafoscari.S

Tom Hall - Alto

Nick Brust

Since moving to New York in 2012, saxophonist Nick Brust has established his voice on the saxophone with an adventurous harmonic imagination and incisive, soulful sound. As much a composer as a performer, Nick co-leads the Brust - Horowitz Quintet, a group that performs mostly original compositions regularly around NYC. Equally influenced by traditional jazz from the blue note era as well as the musical innovators of today, the group recently released an EP, 'Introducing Brust-Horowitz Quintet,' in December 2013. Before moving to New York, Nick attended New England Conservatory in Boston on scholarship, where he studied with Jerry Bergonzi, Frank Carlberg, Ran Blake, John McNeil, Donny McCaslin, and Miguel Zenon

Tony Williams - Saxophone

Born: July 2, 1931

Tony Williams is a legendary alto saxophonist who truly represents "The Sound Of Philadelphia". Born and raised as a child in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tony soon made it up north where he grew up outside of Philadelphia in Crestmont, Pennsylvania. He grew up playing the horn as a youngster and soon found his love with the music. He played in school bands in high school (Abington High School) and later went to college at Tennessee A & I (presently known as Tennessee State University) and played with their band. He transfered to Central State University in Ohio and hooked up with music opportunities there.

Maarten Hogenhuis

Born: 1986

Maarten Hogenhuis is one of Hollands leading young saxophonists. He is a member of the exhilarating powerjazzgroup BRUUT!, the two-drummer band Krupa & The Genes and leads the Maarten Hogenhuis Trio. He was also a member of The More Socially Relevant Jazz Music Ensemble (led by Reinier Baas) and is a much sought-after sideman, which resulted in the collaboration with a wide variety of artists such as Pete Philly & Perquisite, The Four Tops, The Temptations, New Cool Collective Bigband, Ben van Gelder, Benjamin Herman, Jesse van Ruller, Joris Roelofs, Anton Goudsmit and many others. In 2013 Maarten won the prestigious Keep an Eye International Jazz Award with his Maarten Hogenhuis Trio (Best Soloist and Best Band)

Stephanie Francke

Born: April 12, 1989

Stephanie Francke is a Saxophone player and composer based in Rotterdam. Over the years she has released two albums with her own quartet and gave concerts at (amongst other places) the BIMHUIS, North Sea Jazz Festival and Lantarenvenster. She also was a finalist in the Dutch Jazz Competition and European Jazz Competition. With Saxophone Quartet Spoken, she won the Keep an Eye Jazz Award - ‘The Records’, a prestigious Dutch funding for their debut album, which came out in 2018. In 2020, she will be touring with Spoken's newest show 'Lost Cities' and with the Dutch group HENK which just released their album 'The Road Unknown'.

Matthew Clayton

Born: January 10, 1980

Dr. Matthew Clayton, a Philadelphia area native, has played the saxophone for more than 20 years and is a music scholar, teacher, composer, and performer. Some of the highlights of his various performances include shows at Carnegie Hall, famed New York jazz clubs the Village Vanguard and Birdland as a member of the National Grammy All Star High School Jazz Band, the Academy of Music, performing for Grover Washington, Jr., gigs with the late legendary Count Basie trombonist Al Grey, and appearing as a featured performer for a winter jazz festival in Paris, France. Dr. Clayton attended Yale University, where he earned a B.A

Ron Aprea

Born: October 24

Ron Aprea grew up in Astoria, NY and clearly remembers seeing Pete Fountain playing the clarinet on television. Inspired to play, Ron went to his elementary school band director, Mr. Cahill, and asked to play what he thought was Pete’s instrument, a saxophone. So that’s what the school gave him. That little mistake has given the world of Jazz an artist that contributes to the genre with exceptional skill to this day. Continuing to play throughout his school years, Ron finally got his own alto saxophone at age 16 and started taking lessons in a studio across the street from Radio City Music Hall