Results for "saxophone, tenor"

Elliot Spero

Born: July 4, 1959

Tenor & Soparino Saxophones, Percussion, Flutes Elliot Spero / E. C. Spero Productions - Musician /Producer/ Manager/ Booking Agent/Teacher. San Francisco City & State Collage From Forest Hills, Queens N.Y. has been in the music profession for 40 years. West coast in the bay area of San Francisco and then back to the NYC metro area. Started on piano at age 8 in NY and than on to playing Tenor sax in high school band at age 13 in Clearwater FL. Influenced by his older brothers Roger and Buck's love of jazz, musicians themselves, up from the basement of his house as a kid in Forest Hills Gardens NY came the sounds of Miles, Mingus, Coltrane & McCoy

Vasilis Xenopoulos

Saxophonist, composer and educator, Vasilis Xenopoulos is one of the most accomplished Greek jazz musicians of his generation and a genuine representative of straight ahead jazz. London became his permanent home after graduating with honors from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and gradually established himself as one of London’s up and coming jazz saxophonists. He has worked with some of the best musicians of the International Jazz Scene as a band leader, a section leader and as a guest soloist at various projects. In 2009 he formed “The Xtet" and their debut album “Loud City" containing 8 original compositions was released on 33Jazz Records in 2011

Daniel Rotem

Daniel Rotem is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator, and producer. Since arriving in Los Angeles six years ago to attend the acclaimed Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Program, he has established himself as a prominent member of the local creative music scene, and a voice to be reckoned with within the international jazz community.

Growing up in Israel by the Mediterranean Sea, Daniel fell in love with the freedom and potential for expression he found in Jazz after starting to play saxophone as a teenager. His musical beginnings in Israel's Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts and the Rimon School of Music instilled in Daniel a deep reverence and love for the tradition and history of jazz, and a yearning to travel far and wide to receive the best musical education he could, on and off the bandstand. He was fortunate to experience both: He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (now the Herbie Hancock Institute), and also had the privilege to perform and record with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billy Childs, Terri Lyne Carrington, Stevie Wonder, Jeff Parker, Darek Oles, Lionel Loueke, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Josh Nelson, Anat Cohen, Sara Gazarek, and many more.

Li Gao Yang

Born: 1994

Aged 18, the Beijing-born saxophonist Li Gaoyang is already considered a representative of new-generation Chinese jazz music. He is a wonderful player skilled in tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone with rich experience of improvising, and, together with his band, played at many international events and jazz festivals, with his performance and music being considered as " the closest to the original jazz " by critics. Together with Hong Kong-based pianist Jim Schneider, Australian drummer Cameron Reid and Swedish bass guitar player Richard Malsten, he played a leading role at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong International Jazz Festival on 7 october 2012

Eric Schugren

Saxophonist, and composer Eric Schugren lives in New York City where he moved from Los Angeles in 2008. He has played and recorded with a host of jazz luminaries young and old including the late Billy Higgins, Harold Land, Teddy Charles, and the thriving Willie Jones lll, Richard Grant, Danny Grissett, and Bob Hurst, to name a few . He has written sound tracks for the films of artist Bob Branaman which are in the Museum of Modern Art's Beat Generation archive. Additionally, Eric is in his 7th year as the woodwind clinician at the International Summer Jazz Academy in Krakow, Poland. Originally from Berkeley California, he has a degree in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, and has traveled Europe and China as an ambassador of Jazz

Tony Barba

Tony Barba is a recent addition to Chicago after living in New York City for the last decade. Graduating in 2001 from the NYU jazz department, Barba studied saxophone with such notables as George Garzone and Ralph Lalama. SInce then, Tony has performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia and Africa with such artists as Andrew Hill, Josh Ritter, Escort, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, David Murray, Angelica Sanchez, Al Vizutti, Tony Scherr, Steven Bernstein, Ellery Eskelin, Shane Endsley, the Violent Femmes, Pete Yorn, Antibalis, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. From 2001 until 2010, Tony led and self-released two albums with his funk band the Barbarian Horde, which featured many of Brooklyn's finest musicians

Rich Merrick

Florencia Gonzalez

“Florencia Gonzalez performance (…) was again one of the most interesting and enjoyable acts, with the right balance between school and street, between north and south, between the past and future of music.” —LA DIARIA “...tracks driven by Latin dance rhythms (tango, candombe, etc) but stretched into modern realms of harmony, rhythm and form that recall the best of Mingus, Monk and Gil Evans...” “...an array of colors... as she marries modern jazz harmony and the occasional 12 tonish classical master to the deepest folkloric traditions of the south of South America.” —THE BOSTON PHOENIX Florencia, composer, performer (multi woodwind player, singer), and session musician, leads bands that range from a duo of guitar and saxophone to a 20-piece Big Band

Ed RosenBerg III

Born: June 4, 1979

Edward RosenBerg III is a composer/performer currently residing in New York City. He studied saxophone at the Eastman School of Music, composition at Queens College and counterpoint with Paul Caputo. Edward performs regularly as a saxophonist/clarinetist/beat-boxer with a variety of jazz/rock/new-music groups including: Anti-Social Music, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Asphalt Orchestra, Fireworks Ensemble, Talking Band, The Metawee River Theater Company, Amy Lynn & The Gunshow, Euphonique Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble Signal, Liz Roche Dance Company, and the Bottleote Music Collective in Dublin

Björn Dahlberg

Born: November 14, 1973

Björn Dahlberg is a Swedish musician, best known for his saxophone & clarinet work. Born outside of Stockholm Björn started playing piano at the age of 5 and clarinet at the age of 11. While studying classical clarinet he fell in love with the music of Paul Desmond, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea & Miles Davies and picked up the saxophon. Focusing at first on the Baritone and Soprano sax (studying soprano with master musician Cenneth Jönsson) he added tenor to his collection and found his voice and began his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Björn is a founding member of world jazz groups Nybakat and Lele Lele