Results for "saxophone, baritone"

Cecil Myers

Born: October 20, 1973

Cecil Myers is the Assistant Director of Jazz Studies at the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts where his teaching duties include Jazz 1 and Music Theory. A native of Tucson, Arizona, he earned his Bachelors Degree in Music Education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While at UNLV, he studied woodwinds under Felix Viscuglia, conducting under Takayoshi “Tad” Suzuki, and Jazz under Frank Gagliardi, Rocky Winslow, and Stefan Karlsson. Cecil has been teaching in the Clark County School District for over seventeen years. His jazz programs have performed all over the world including performances in Rome, Edinburgh, and the prestigious Birdland Jazz Club in New York City

Martin Perna

Born: 1975

My name is Martín Perna. I am a creative producer in Berkeley, California. and on the road the rest of the time. Since 1995, I have worked professionally as a musician, musical director and film composer. I perform and record music with a lot of people that maybe you know and many that you might not. 2020 Grammy-nominated Best Global Music Album - "Fu Chronicles" by Antibalas (Daptone Records). (Co-producer, performance). People/groups I've worked with recently: Antibalas, Jose James, Nona Hendryx, Bettyle Lavette, Alice Russell, Mark Ronson, Greg Phillinganes, Dr. John, Michael McDonald, Ledisi, Angélique Kidjo, Anthony Hamilton, Gregory Porter, Valerie Simpson, Ed Sheeran, The Roots, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Brian Jackson, Steven Bernstein, Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio), Saul Williams, Miguel Zenón, John Medeski, Ana-Maurine Lara, Karim Lopez, Mike Tyner, Zap Mama, Santigold, Lorenzo "Jovanotti" Cherubini, The Stepkids, and many others. I play exclusively Bari reeds and use SYOS mouthpieces

Mark Schenkel

Mark Schenkel was born and raised in New York and has been playing sax and woodwinds since elementary school. Mark moved to South Florida at age 16 and completed high school at the Broward School of Performing Arts before attending the University of Florida, where he earned a spot in the top UF Jazz Band, performing with such guest artists as Dizzie Gillespie, Phil Woods, Buddy Rich, Joe Williams, Duffy Jackson and Bobby Shew. Since moving to Orlando, Mark has performed in various jazz and blues groups throughout Central Florida, including the Smokin’ Torpedoes, Straight Ahead, the Jazz Repertory Orchestra, The Orlando Swing Band, The Maitland Stage Band, The New Traditions Jazz Ensemble, the Altamonte Jazz Ensemble and the Sanford Jazz Ensemble.

Giulia Barba

Born: November 6, 1984

Born in Bologna in 1984, Italian reed player Giulia Barba decided to pursue musical studies after she majored in Philosophy at the University of Bologna. Only then she began studying music, first in Italy, then in the Netherlands, attending the prestigious Conservatorium Van Amsterdam. In 2012 Giulia had the honor to be a member of the Arena Project, together with the most talented musicians from Europe such as Karlis Auzins, Miklos Borbely, Eva Bjerga Haugen, Inge Breistein, Petru Popa and Anton Hunter. The Arena Project performed at the prestigious MaiJAzz Festival in Stavanger (Norway) led by famous composer and bass player Per Zanussi

Aaron Lington

Born: December 27, 1974

Grammy Award-winning baritone saxophonist and composer Aaron Joseph Lington (b. 1974) received his BM in music education from the University of Houston, Moores School of Music, and both his MM in jazz studies and DMA in saxophone performance from the University of North Texas where he studied with James Riggs. His performing and compositional credits include collaborations with the San Francisco Symphony, Maynard Ferguson, the BBC Radio Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, Doc Severinsen, Bo Diddley, Randy Brecker, Joe Lovano, Jamie Davis, Tommy Igoe, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, and many others. In addition, he has won awards for both his playing and writing from Downbeat Magazine, ASCAP, and was the 2003 recipient of the Sammy Nestico Award. He was named the 2011 “Jazz Educator of the Year” by the California Music Educators Association, and has been recognized multiple times in both the Downbeat Magazine Critic’s Poll and Reader’s Poll. In 2015 he was named as a Silicon Valley Artist Laureate. The San José Mercury News praises Dr. Lington’s playing as “revelatory…he obviously relishes the beautiful, blustery bark of his instrument…” and that he possesses a “…finely honed melodic sensibility…” Josh Davies from the International Trumpet Guild states that Lington “...[shows] a true command of his instrument with a very studied and soulful essence.” Cadence magazine declares “Lington and compatriots come up with a wonderful and totally American jazz sound, [resulting in] a solid mainstream set based on some sweet melodic improvisation.”

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Dovydas Stalmokas

Born: October 17, 1982

Bruce Johnstone

Born: September 1, 1943

Bruce Johnstone b.Sept 1st 1943 Wellington New Zealand.Bruce Johnstone’s first exposure to American audiences was as a member of Maynard Ferguson’s band in 1972. He recorded three albums with the Ferguson Band which, along with live concert appearances placed him in the #3 spot in Down Beat Magazine’s Readers Poll behind Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams. He held this position for the next ten years. Leaving Ferguson in 1976, he moved to N.Y., signed with Arista’s new Freedom label and with co-leaders Rick Petrone and Joe Corsello formed the new Jazz Fusion band New York Mary. Both albums produced by this band met with great critical success

Zach Mayer

Born: December 24, 1989

Jonah Parzen-Johnson

Born: May 26, 1988

Jonah Parzen-Johnson is a saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. He writes lofi music for solo saxophone and analog synthesizer. Imagine the raw energy of an Appalachian Folk choir, tempered by a lofi, minimal aesthetic inspired by the music of Bill Callahan. His carefully assembled analog synthesizer breathes with his saxophone, building independent melodic layers to support his sound, or soaring above his extended technique driven saxophone playing. All performed live, without any looping or recorded samples. A Chicago native, Jonah’s circular breathing, multi-phonics and impossibly nimble vocalization owes a debt to the Chicago saxophone legacy, but his devotion to a quirky almost vocal style places him in new territory for the solo saxophone