Results for "saxophone, tenor"

Buyu Ambroise

Buyu Ambroise was born in Haiti. After a brief stay in the Republic of Congo as a child, Buyu has been residing in the United States for over 35 years. Buyu was drawn to the saxophone at a young age, experimenting with the instrument as a high school student in Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s, a fertile period for both Haitian music and American Jazz. His passion for Jazz music led him to study with Jazz legends such as Frank Foster, Jimmy Owens, and John Lewis. Buyu then performed in New York City with various small groups for more than 20 years, playing usually Haitian Konpa music or Jazz

James L. Guter

Born: January 2, 1939

Retired Fine Arts Department Chair and Director of Bands, Jim has been active in music education in Illinois, Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, and Connecticut as a Band Director and Supervisor. He belongs to many state and national music educators professional associations. He is a Sinfonian and was a charter member of Lamda Mu Chapter. He was selected as an Outstanding Young Man in America, Outstanding Jazz Educator from NBA, and received a Citation of Excellence for Outstanding Contribution to Bands and Band Music from the National Band Association. He was named to the Who's Who among American Teachers in 2002 & 2003, and Who's Who in America 2002 & 2004

Irv Gordon

Born: May 13, 1933

Originally from Philadelphia, Gordon's career spans back to the bebop era, having come up alongside other jazz greats like the Heath brothers, Stan Getz, and John Coltrane, to name a few. Gordon began performing at the age of 16. At 18, he played the same chair as Lester Young behind Billie Holiday for the first interracial jazz concert in Philadelphia in the summer of 1952 Credits include performances with Philly Joe Jones, Sarah Vaughn, The Four Freshman, Vido Musso, Frances Fayes, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Abby Lincoln, Tommy Vig, Steve & Edie, Ike & Tina Turner, Elvis, Johnny Mathis, and several others. In the '60s Irv Gordon wrote and conducted Minsky's Burlesque at the old Thunderbird Hotel, isomg severa; up can coming musicians at the time like trumpeters Chuck Findlay and Bobby Shew, and bassist Bob Magnusson, who were barely in their '20s at the time.. Gordon later wrote arrangments for several celebrities, including the very first show for infamous illusionists Siegfried & Roy. As a tenor saxophonist, Gordon's sound and approach represented a strong influence from the Lester Young school of playing, placing him in the same arena as other great tenor players like Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Al Cohn as a lyrical improvisationalist. Following retirement from playing production shows up until the early '90S, Gordon performed in small group jazz settings only with other jazz notables like trombonist Carl Fontana, saxophonist Bill Trujillo, and drummer Irv Kluger.

YolanDa Brown

Born: October 4, 1982

Think saxophones, and most of us will immediately start thinking of jazz, specifically trad jazz. No bad thing, maybe, as there are few instruments as beautiful as the saxophone, and few sounds as effortlessly beautiful as jazz, but YolanDa Brown is someone who has made the instrument truly her own, a miraculously gifted saxophonist fluent in a whole lot more than just that one genre. As her two EPs to date, July 2007's Finding My Voice and August 2008's A Step Closer, so volubly attest, here is an artist who takes jazz and introduces it to all sorts: to soul, to R&B and gospel, to loping reggae and infectious Latin

Karel Ruzicka Jr.

Born: June 27, 1973

Award winning saxophonist, composer and producer Karel Ruzicka Jr. has a way to captivate the audience in practically any musical context. It was already evident back in 1992 when his group "The Four" was awarded the first prize at the International Jazz Festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic in 1992. Their appearance at the prestigious Jazz a Vienne in France that summer was received with standing ovation. The group released their album "Space and Rhythm in 1994 to a great critical acclaim. Karel Ruzicka Jr. then briefly visited his future home of New York and met many great jazz artists including trumpeter Roy Hargrove

Adam Diller

Born: February 11, 1980

Influenced by Sri Aurobindo as much as J Dilla, Thomas Pynchon as much as Edgar Varese, Charles Bronson as much as Sun Ra, Adam Diiler occupies an enigmatic position in the realm between jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music.

Tim Ballard

Born: February 12, 1948

TIM BALLARD (1948-2009) was a multi-faceted, master entertainer (vocal, saxophone, trumpet) whose career spanned over four decades and delighted audiences on a countless volume of music in many genres, including classic jazz, smooth jazz, soul, R&B (including Motown), rock, and standards. In 2008, Tim was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame as a member of the former Capitol Records group, Garry Mac and the Mac Truque ("Truqued Up! Alive in Concert" Capitol Records, 1969). A 15-year veteran of the Las Vegas music scene, and a music entrepreneur for 46 years, Tim's name graced many major hotel and casino billboards as a headliner, such as Bally's, Mandalay Bay, Caesar's Palace, the Bellagio, Flamingo Hilton, the historic Desert Inn, and the MGM Grand

Richard Cole

Born: February 10, 1957

Fans, critics and musicians place Richard Cole in the first rank of his generation's players. A nationally acclaimed talent, Richard is among the most in-demand musicians in the burgeoning jazz scene in the Pacific Northwest. Beside work with such jazz greats as Randy Brecker, Dave Holland, Adam Nussbaum, Julian Priester and John Fedchock, he has toured regularly with fusion star Dan Siegel, performed with r&b legends Gladys Knight, The Temptations and The Four Tops while also composing and performing his own music. Richard's music is clearly jazz, following forward from the intense traditions of the jazz masters, yet it is enriched by the many lessons learned from his wide range of musical experiences. Richard cites numerous influences including the seminal jazz performances of John Coltrane and Joe Henderson

Jacques Schwarz-Bart

Undoubtedly Jacques Schwarz-Bart shares this vision put forth by the writer Patrick Chamoiseau, “The contemporary melting pot of cultures and ethnicities has created a worldwide phenomenon of “creolisation”.. This New York based jazz saxophonist, praised by major American soul artists, raised by a Black Guadeloupean mother and a French Jewish father-, grew up between Switzerland and Guadeloupe… The son of two award wining novelists, Jacques followed an original and sinuous path that speaks volume about his identity. He was born in the suburbs of Pointe a Pitre on December 22nd 1962

Dan Stern

Born: May 29, 1973

Dan Stern was born in 1973 in London to South African parents. As a teenager he studied classical composition with Roger Redgate, Malcolm Singer, and then, when reading Music at Cambridge University, Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. After graduating he went to South Africa where he played piano with many musicians on the Johannesburg scene. In 1998 he returned to London to study politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. After hearing Michael Brecker at Ronnie Scotts in November 1999, Dan decided to take the plunge into jazz, and searched out Dave Liebman to study with. After many years of study with Liebman and various small groups and gigs in London, a meeting with Tim Garland prompted him to explore in jazz his compositional background. He has recorded/played with some of the top names in the UK and US, namely, Dave Liebman, Dave Binney, Tim Garland, Phil Markowitz, Gwilym Simcock, Phil Donkin, Julian Seigel, Robert Mitchell, Tom Mason, and Asaf Sirkis