Results for "saxophone, tenor"

Christian Vuust

Born: December 25, 1964

Born in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1964. Danish tenor saxophone player and composer. Also plays soprano and alto saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet. Associate professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark. Teaches saxophone, jazz ensemble, ear training and entrepreneurship. Studied at Berklee College of Music in 1990-91, with teachers Herb Pomeroy, George Garzone, Hal Crook, Joe Viola, and Jerry Bergonzi. Has performed/recorded with Lars Jansson (S), Aaron Parks (US), Ben Street (US), Jeff Ballard (US), Hal Crook (US), Audun Kleive (N), Per Jørgensen (N), Jori Hulkkonen (FIN), Gimo Mendes (Mozambique), Silje Neergaard (N), Jakob Bro (DK), Alex Riel (DK) and many others

Zan Stewart

Born: March 29, 1944

In 2009, when he was 65, Zan Stewart felt it was time for a major life change. He decided to leave daily journalism – where he had worked as a jazz writer for close to 30 years at The Los Angeles Times and the Newark Star-Ledger – to focus on music. “It felt like it was time to see what might happen if I devoted myself to the horn, to writing music, and to teaching, seeing where they might take me,” says Stewart, a student clarinetist at age six and a tenor saxophonist since 1966. “I had done a ton of writing – around 2000 profiles plus many more reviews and other short pieces

Maayan Smith

Jerusalem native, Maayan Smith started his musical studies at the age of 9 and was quickly recognized as a talent to look out for. He found guidance and a mentor in prof. Gersh Geller at the Jerusalem Conservatory mastering the classical style of saxophone and winning numerous scholarships, awrards and competitions. He continued his studies with prof. Geller thorough high school and has recieved his Bachelor of music degree from the Jerusalem Music Academy for classical perfomance in 2006. Since 1998 Maayan has been a member of the Jerusalem Saxophone Quartet, exploring his interest in chamber music and ensemble playing

Cam Wharram

Born: May 20, 1992

Born in Boston, MA Cam Wharram is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, sideman, and composer living and working in the New England Area. Wharram has accrued many awards in both IAJE Conferences, UNH's Clark Terry Jazz Festival, and has performed with regional audition-only groups at venues such as Symphony Hall and Mechanics Hall. Currently, Cam is attending the Berklee College of Music on scholarship. Wharram has been playing professionally since the age of 15, playing in blues bands and small jazz groups in local bars, and eventually working in many theater pits around New England including the New London Barn Playhouse, the Turtle Lane Playhouse, the Next Door Theater, the Illuminator Players, and the Palace Theater in Manchester, NH

Peter Vircks

Veteran saxophonist Peter Vircks, co-founder of acclaimed Minneapolis jazz outfit Moveable Feast, has released a self-produced debut album of original music entitled What You Believe Is True. Fresh off a tour that included eight weeks in China, three weeks in New York at Times Square’s New Victory Theater a month at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland and a month in The Netherlands, Vircks has been busy plying his unique reed work nationally and internationally with the award-winning Rhythmic Circus show Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, yet he has also managed to keep the home fires burning hotly, harnessing some of the Twin Cities’ heaviest musical talent in an elegant, decadently captured jazz recording. With eight compositions written by Vircks and one by master bassist Roman Evaniuk (Harry Chapin, Source Code, Bill Carrothers), What You Believe Is True fuses funky, incisive rhythms with rich, unpredictable melodies and an extraordinary production aesthetic

David Kupsick

Born: August 3, 1963

I am a tenor and soprano saxophone player that plays a variety of music from Cool/Classic Jazz, Rhythm & Blues and Pop.

Pete Chavez

Born: 1943

Pete Chavez was born in Greeley, Colorado and raised in Denver, Colorado where he studied clarinet with Dr. William Gower, editor of the Rubank Method books. In 1955, at 13 years of age, he moved to Los Angeles where he played oboe with the Highland Park Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra during his high school years. His early jazz influences included trumpeter Little Benny Harris, bassist George Morrow, and tenor saxophone giant Lin Halliday. In the 1960s he moved to New Orleans where he became a fixture on the local jazz scene jamming all night most nights

Andreas Grosskopf

Born: December 25, 1972

((grosskopf)) … who’s this? One might say that ((grosskopf)) – meaning ‘big head’ – is to compare with a funnel in which all kind of musical influence and style is inserted and out of his saxophone’s bell comes HIS music … jazz-funk spiced with drum’nbass and ambient sounds! This stylistic description of ((grosskopf))’s work would be too simple if you look at his diverse projects and the compositions of the last years. The juries, awarding him did so, because of the huge stylistic diversity in playing and composing. In his projects involved are musicians like percussionist Hakim Ludin, New York-based singer Miles Griffith, singer Lois from Vienna, singer Charlotte Karlstedt from Amsterdam and DJ Pyjama Pyrat from Leipzig among others. He travelled through Europe, North America and Asia (Nepal, India, Japan) to play his music

Frank Deruytter

Frank Deruytter Biography Musician, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone Sax, Bass guitar, Composer, Producer, and Vocals Frank started playing the saxophone at the age of 12. Even at a young age, Frank was already considered one of the great talents on the Belgian music scene. And from a young age, Frank experienced a great deal of success on the road with various jazz, pop, rock, and funk ensembles. At the age of 18, Frank won the Knack Youth Jazz Trophy, which was presented to him personally by the legendary Toots Thielemans. Along his musical path, Frank met Carlo Mertens (trombone) and Nico Schepers (Trumpet), and after several productions and collaborations together, the trio decided to form a horns group

Fredrik Carlquist

Born: June 30, 1969

Fredrik Carlquist is a Swedish saxophonist based in Barcelona in Spain. Since his arrival to the Catalan capitol in 2001Fredrik has established himself as one of the strongest sax voices on the city’s jazz scene. With the well balanced and melodic playing heard on Fredrik’s albums from recent years he’s often been compared to players like Stan Getz and Paul Desmond but his musical palette is much broader than that. Even though a kind of cool and airy lyricism has followed him over the years Fredrik definitely knows how to be both hot and loud or free or abstract depending on the moment and the musical situation