Results for "saxophone, tenor"

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Steve Nieto

Born: November 23, 1957

Gig Harbor Washington Saxophonist/ Keyboardist Steve Nieto has worked on his craft for over four decades. His influences include Jazz, Blues, Pop and Rock. His latest project “Smoother Than Jazz” is his first solo effort. It is performed as a live show. It features arrangements of your favorite Traditional and Pop Jazz arrangements. With selections from Duke Ellington to Alicia Keyes, Santana...to Sinatra, Steve’s musical styling’s cover some of the finest music of the past century and into the next. His soulful Tenor Sax and his smooth Alto Sax playing will both excite and relax you. Steve’s use of Midi controlled Synthesizers will have you wondering where the rest of the band is.

Tony White

Born: May 6, 1967

Saxophonist and music educator, Anthony “Tony” White began his music career on clarinet before moving to tenor saxophone in high school. Inspired by musical greats John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Ernie Watts, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Henderson, Jan Garbarek, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock to name a few. Mr. White went on to study music at The University of California, Riverside where he performed in the jazz studies program under the direction of Bill Helms, adding soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute and the Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) to his arsenal of instruments. It was during his college career that he began performing in groups ranging from pop to rock and hip hop and Latin jazz

Gerard Lebik

Born: July 23, 1980

Gerard Lebik - sound artist, musician living Wroclaw/Poland. Works with improvised, experimental and intermedia music. H's the author of sound installations and sound interventions in public space. Creates music and sound either by improvisation, musical notation or through directly manipulation of sonic material using electro and acoustic media. Explores the audible phenomena field through various tools and techniques: saxophones, zopan wave generators, air compressors, VHS recorders, video objects, electronics, analog video feedback, software. In 2007 graduated Wroclaw Academy of Music

Dean Mongerio

Born: June 9, 1977

Dean has cultivated his passionate and commanding playing style through a vast range of experience in Jazz, R&B, Rock, Pop, Funk, and Gospel, as well as producing and arranging numerous projects and leading several of his own groups in various musical genres. On the more traditional side, Dean has performed with jazz artists Rufus Reid, Marcus Printup, Sam Rivers, and Danny Gottlieb, as well as contemporary artists such as Chieli Minucci, Marc Antoine, Ed Calle, Chris Standring, Mike Phillips, Craig Chaquico, Will Donato, and Blake Aaron. He’s also performed and/or recorded with a diverse array of mainstream artists including The Temptations, The O’Jays, Steve Cropper, The Drifters, Ryan Shaw, Khristian Dentley (Take 6), and Tony Battaglia (Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Mandy Moore, Shinedown)

Alex Blaine

Alex Blaine is a New Orleans based tenor saxophonist, though he also plays piano, keys, and organ. Born and raised in New Jersey, a stone’s throw from New York City, he began saxophone at age 7 and was marching in parades with high school bands by age 10. Being the son of a professional saxophonist and music teacher, Alex was raised with music as a major part of his life. Blaine recently contributed to an album credited with a 2015 Grammy nomination in the Best Blues Album category (Bobby Rush’s “Decisions”) along with many other fantastic players.  He has worked with prominent individuals such as Dr

Gerit von Stockhausen

Born: May 22, 1978

Thomas

Born: March 15, 1971

Thomas Hass, who is largely self-taught, got a foothold in the jazz scene as a member and co-initiator of the hard bop quintet Page One, who in 1987 won the International Jazz Federation contest for young European jazz groups in Leverkusen, Germany. In the group were talents like Thomas Blachman, Lennart Ginman, Henrik Bolberg and Erik Orum von Spreckelsen and they released two albums live from respectively Montmartre, Copenhagen and Ronnie Scotts in London. At the same time he was member of the fusion group The End with such musicians as Morten Grønvad, Niels Ratzer, Ole Skipper Moesgaard with whom he released two albums with

Henrik Gad

Born: September 30, 1977

"Henrik Gad is a 37 years old jazz saxophonist from the northern parts of Sweden. He started to play jazz at the age of 9 and has done so ever since. He has a “master of fine arts and improvisation” from the university of Gothenburg. Henrik has played with most of the well known jazz artist from Sweden and started his own quartet 3 years ago. Now it´s time for Henrik Gad Quartets debut album “For You” that will be released in the autumn of 2015!" www.henrikgad.com