Results for "saxophone, tenor"

Igor Lumpert

Born: October 27, 1975

A progressive tenor saxophonist and composer, Igor’s music represents a unique fusion of jazz, funk, Eastern European rhythms, and modern neo-bop sketches. He has performed with jazz legends including Reggie Workman, John Abercrombie, Chico Hamilton, Sonny Simmons, Boris Kozlov, and Andy McKee.

Born October 27, 1975, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Igor began his professional training at age 19 at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, Austria, where he studied with Doug Hammond and Harry Sokal. During this period, he was a member of Munich-based band Sidewinders, winner of the“Best Jazz Group of Germany” award.

Jimmy Rivera

Born: July 31, 1979

Hi everybody, I was born in 79 in LA and started playing the Tenor sax in my early teens. I've moved to NY at the age of 19 to attened Manhattan School of Music. I've recorded two quartet albums and has been playing regularly in many NY jazz clubs. These days I'm teaching in several music schools around the NY area and working on a trio album which would be released in November.

Kenneth Whalum III

Born: June 21, 1983

A remarkable bandleader, composer, arranger, and tenor saxophonist, New York City-based jazz musician Kenneth Whalum has set a new direction in music that can be described as creatively engaging, intense, and artistically real, to push the conventional boundaries of contemporary emerging artists. Whalum fuses together straight-ahead jazz, pop, soul, gospel, R&B, blues, and country—-creating Picasso-like colors and brimming textures, of even richer musical hues. His music creates a soundscape of lyrical cities�"towering sounds of romance and love, ornate acoustic funky rhythms, bridging emotion and melody, song and dance, wonder and faith

Claude Werner

Born: October 4, 1975

Claude R. Werner originally from Chile, landed in Newcastle upon Tyne by a circuitous route that took in New York, Paris, Barcelona, and goodness knows where else- a visiting Danish rhythm section greeted him as an old friend. Learnt his craft on the front-line playing with world class musicians across Europe. Those who have come to expect a sometimes slightly psychotic post-bopper tenor saxophonist are beguiled by the warm expressiveness of his tone in his most recent work, Thoughts and Recollections. Listen to the music.

Lars Hägerhäll

Born: February 25, 1938

Started to play tenorsax at the age of 65. Played with Bjarred Swing Band 2007 - 2010 Left the band april 2010 because of sightproblems. Operated in left eye june 2010.

Korey Riker

Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Producer & Educator Korey Riker has had the honor of working with The Roots, John Legend, Mary J Blige, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Ursula Rucker, Eric Roberson, Fantasia, Chrisette Michelle, Jennifer Hudson and many others. About "Prehumous": "Prehumous", the debut album from Philadelphia saxophonist, Korey Riker, features eight original compositions supported by a cutting-edge ensemble. Lending their talents are Luke O'Reilly on piano and Fender Rhodes, upright bassist Nimrod Speaks and the first studio recording from Branford Marsalis's new drummer, Justin Faulkner

Keith Gamble

Born: February 20, 1959

Keith Gamble began playing clarinet in fourth grade, and by age 16 tenor saxophone. His High School music teacher Ernest Rodgers was a major influence in his life as he taught Keith Gamble to play saxophone. While a student Keith Gamble began playing professionally with a disco/top 40`s group called the Unique Experience Band. The Unique Experience Band mostly played cabaret halls in Detroit from 1975-1978. Also during this period Keith Gamble began playing with the New Detroit Jazz Development Workshop under the direction of trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. During his college years from 1978-1982, Keith Gamble attended Oakland University in Rochester, MI

Bob Roper

Born: January 18, 1950

I studied music in New York City from 1973 to 1987. I studied with Lynn Oliver for the last nine years of that interval. I played in his big band which used the books of most of the historic swing and jazz big bands, and studied improvisation in his nonet which focused on his four hundred chart book of arrangements of standards and compositions of Horace Silver and material done by Art Blakey's band. I played mainstream jazz in the school, and with other groups outside at least four days a week on average from 1976 to 1987. Since then, I haven't had as many opportunities to play since most musicians elsewhere seem to insist on playing only at paying engagements, and likely prefer to watch TV otherwise

Christian Gonsior

Born: February 19, 1969

Tom Moon

Born: November 3, 1960

A tenor saxophonist who played with the late Canadian bandleader Maynard Ferguson, Moon assembled a variety of Philadelphia musicians for what he calls the Moon Hotel Lounge Project, an all-instrumental collection that touches on elements of jazz, bossa nova and atmospheric fusion.

Inspired by Moon’s stays in snazzy hotel lounges while on the book tour for “1,000 Recordings,” the album is a cool and breezy listen, but the scraping guitar of Kevin Hanson on “Scaffolding, How to Dismantle” and a moody rearrangement of “Rock of Ages” (complete with a synthetic backdrop of vinyl “static”) are among the factors keeping things from drifting too far into the background.