Results for "saxophone, tenor"

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

Bob Anram

Born: July 4, 1946

University of Illinois Jazz Band While with The One Eyed Jacks, performed with The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Vanilla Fudge Battled Sonny Stitt and Eddie Harris in Chicago in the early 70s. Albums: The Hurricane Session with Dutch Bassist Philip Baumgarten The Blank Canvas with the Philip Baumgarten Trio featuring Leonieke Vermeer on piano and Matthias van Olst on drums Both albums on the Tracks to Wax label Authored articles on the psychology of jazz improvisation for the international website:Sax on the Web.

Mary Petrich

Born: April 17

Mary has received two degrees in saxophone performance, initially from Indiana University and subsequently an advanced degree from Arizona State. From a foundation in classical music, the freedom and creativity of jazz has emerged as the driving force in her musical career. Mary currently works with the Phoenix Symphony and is the leader of several smaller-format jazz projects featuring her original compositions. These include the quartet “OpenHand”, and also the Saxophone Quartet known as “The Prize-Fighting Kangaroos”. Mary has recently followed her eponymous 2013 CD with a second outing; “Murmuration” released in 2016.

Oded Tzur

“You will not hear anything more beautiful today.”

– Télérama, France

New York saxophonist Oded Tzúr has ushered in a new era for his instrument by giving it a whole new voice — one that is described by The Guardian as a “unique tenor sax whisper”. Often recalled by the artist as a 10-year leap of faith, this complete reimagining of the instrument has established him as a torchbearer of Spiritual Jazz. His music is more than a conversation, states the New York City Jazz Record: “It is an interactive prayer".