Results for "saxophone, tenor"

Skipp Pearson

Born: November 21, 1937

Thales Thomas “Skipp” Pearson, South Carolina’s ambassador of Jazz Music, played professionally for the first time at the age of 14, leading his first commercial band at age 15. Upon completion of his formal education, Pearson spent 4 years in the United States Air Force. An enlisted man, with a distinguished military career, Pearson also performed professionally throughout the United States and in Western Europe while faithfully serving his country. In 1965, Pearson enrolled in Claflin College, now Claflin University, to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education

Ilio Volante

Born: May 15, 1964

ILIO VOLANTE Was born in Italy on 15 of May 1964, he was still a teen ager when he started his music studies (saxophone) showing from the very beginning a particular predisposition towards the music composition and Jazz music. At the age of 19 he won the audition for the Italian National Army Band stationed in Rome. He served it for 10 years under the direction of Col. Marino BARTOLONI. After this, he played in the Grenadiers of Sardinia’s Band (Rome) and the Shape International Band (the official Nato Band) stationed in Mons (BELGIUM). In this last post, he covered for three years the 1st Tenor Saxophone slot helping the Director, MSg Allen WITTIG, in doing the original arrangements for the Big Band. So far, in his long carrieer, he has written more than 200 tunes for several music formations

Oleg Kireyev

Born: February 6, 1963

Oleg Kireyev is an internationally recognized musician. He is touring a lot, being in minds since long ago and being loved by people both locally and overseas. He posted his name on most innovative and provocative international jazz projects. His creative ideas are vast, from mainstream and ethno to jazz rock and world music. “Incredibly good, soft, enthusiastic, stylish and top notch” " that is what musical critics say about the voice of his saxophone.

Matt Otto

Born: January 16, 1967

Matt Otto is currently the Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Kansas University (KU)  teaching Jazz Theory and Performance, Jazz Combo 1 and private lessons. Matt was also an Adjunct Professor at the Rutgers New Brunswick teaching online courses in jazz improvisation, theory and performance.

Matt Otto pursued his education in music performance and composition at Indiana University, Berklee School of Music, New School Jazz (BFA) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA) during which time he studied under Lee Konitz, George Garzone, Billy Pierce, Charlie Haden, Don Hawkins and many others.  Having lived in Japan for 6 years, New York City for 7 years and Los Angels for 6 years, he has performed with a variety of artists including Anthony Wilson, Larry Koonse, Rashid Bakr, Ben Monder, Willie Jones III, Alan Ferber, Mark Ferber, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Gregory Hutchinson, Jonathan Kreisberg, Joe La Barbera, Leroy Vinegar, Bob Bowman, Jimmy Smith (drums), Paul Jackson, Ari Honig, Ben Street, Mike Moreno, Sara Gazarek, Josh Nelson, Peter Schlamb, Danny Weiss, Roger Wilder, William Parker, Matt Wilson, Steve Cardenas, Bobby Watson, Bob Weir, Deborah Brown,  Larry Goldings, Eric Harland, Sheryl Bailey, Darek Oles, Erik McPherson, John Stowell, Danny Embrey, Alan Pasqua, and many others.

John Wallace

Born: February 21, 1960

* It started in 1960. Hi world here I am, a clean file ready to be up loaded with all the cool stuff that was happing in that decade. I feel lucky to have been bought up in an era of feel good, people willing to express themselves though all the art forms, but for me the mental springboard was the music I was hearing though radio. The JY Prog (Jimmy Young's) mid morning program, Tony Blackburn's early morning fest, are the ones that spring to mine. You would be listening to artists like Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, The Who, James Brown, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Freddy & The Dreamers, The Kinks, Doris Day, Ken Dodd, The Goons, I Think you get the message, all fresh tracks by artists of the day, I'm in heaven! Ok, I'm lying in bed suffering from trips like Chickenpox, Mumps, chest infections etc, over a period of 5 years or so; I wasn't a lazy bum all my life! But there I was pumping my ears with all this incredible music

Eli Degibri

Born: May 3, 1978

Born and raised in Israel, saxophonist Eli Degibri first began playing the mandolin at age 7 in an after school music program at the Jaffa Conservatory of Music. Three years later, after attending a jazz concert, he became enamored with the saxophone and switched his studies to that instrument. At 16, Degibri has already worked professionally with some of the major names in the Israeli music scene establishing himself as one of the leading musicians in Israel. That same year (1994) Degibri was selected to receive a full scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music’s Summer Performance Program

Elena Kapeleris

Elena Kapeleris is a jazz tenor saxophonist and vocalist. Elena'a debut CD "INTRODUCTION" was recorded at CBC on November 30th, 2008 and will be released in April of 2009. "INTRODUCTION" features Elena Kapeleris on saxophone and vocals, the great Pat LaBarbera on saxophones, Tom Juhas on Guitar and Brandi Disterheft on bass. Elena Kapeleris is a graduate of the jazz program at Humber College in Toronto, Canada. At Humber she studied saxophone with world renowned saxophonist, Pat Labarbera. During this time, Labarbera placed emphasis on learning the lyrics of the songs that she was playing on the horn

Peter Slocombe

Born: August 21, 1984

Peter Slocombe was born in Wolverhampton, England 1984. At six, Peter picked up the Clarinet, and at nine started on Saxophone. When his family moved to California in 1996, he quickly became involved in the young music scene. By the end of high school he was performing regularly with "Underwood", a well established rock band, in venues such as: The House of Blues, The knitting Factory, B.B kings, and The Key Club. In 2006 Peter graduated from The California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Jazz studies. He was also one of the 2006 recipients of the John Coltrane Music Scholarship in Saxophone performance. Peter's first full length album entitled "Lullaby for Elizabeth" was released in Fall 2007 in conjunction with SNP Records. As a professional musician Peter divides his time teaching and performing

Rainer Pusch

Born: April 26, 1954

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Michael Bello

Born: July 16, 1979

Played saxophone for 17 years