Results for "saxophone, tenor"

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

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

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

Sunyata Jazz Quartet

Matt Clauhs - Saxophone & Flute Matt Clauhs grew up in Bucks County, PA. He studied saxophone and flute at Penn State University while obtaining a B.S. in music education. In the State College area, Matt led his own group, the Freedom Jazz Quintet, and performed weekly gigs with two other jazz ensembles, the Andrew Jackson Jazz Showcase and Groove Affliction. After graduating from Penn State, Matt moved to Massachusetts and began work as a instrumental music teacher in the Boston Public School District. There he teaches Jazz Band, Jazz Improvisation, Music Theory, and Music History at the Boston Arts Academy, a public high school for the performing and visual arts

Eric Spaulding

Born: February 20, 1979

I primarily play old timey jump blues with gobs of honking sax workouts thrown in for good measure. I studied jazz under several Pittsburgh jazz masters, including Don Aliquo Jr. and Don Aliquo Sr., Nick Dialoiso, Eric DeFade and Eric Kloss. I've played with Roomful of Blues, Duke Robillard, the Love Dogs, Michelle Willson and her Evil Gal Orchestra, Billy Price, B3 legend Gene Ludwig, No Bad JuJu, Roger Humphries, and Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters.

Dave Mullen

Born: April 20, 1966

Saxophonist/Composer/Producer Dave Mullen offers a welcome dose of SOLACE to a world sorely in need of it on his invigorating new album on Mullsoul Music Records that features the exhilarating musicianship of a group of his masterful peers: pianist Jon Cowherd, bassist Hans Glawischnig, drummer E.J. Strickland and, in a pair of special guest appearances, trumpeter Jim Seeley. The album was also mixed by the Grammy-winning producer engineer Jeff Jones, a regular collaborator with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Far from the somber elegy the title might imply, however, Mullen introduces 7 songs that pay homage to the likes of some of jazz's most iconic and inspiring voices John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Michael Brecker, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Dave Mullen has been a staple on the NYC scene for years having performed and/or recorded with many renowned artists such as Nile Rodgers, Gloria Gaynor, Roy Ayers, Gil Scott Heron, Vic Juris, Marc Ribot, Mark Egan, John Hicks, Bernie Worrell, John Medeski, Hans Glawischnig, Boris Koslov, Jon Cowherd, P-Funk, Ben Vereen, The Brand New Heavies, Eddie Hazel, Brian Jackson, George Porter, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Claudio Roditi, Cecil Bridgewater, John Gros, Victor Jones, John Hicks, Billy “Bass” Nelson, Jerome Brailey, Blue Man Group, Slick Rick, Danny Gottlieb, Delfeayo Marsalis, Robin Eubanks, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, John Benitez, and many others. Saxophonist/Composer Dave Mullen introduces his inspiring new album SOLACE on Mullsoul Music Records that features a group of his masterful peers: pianist Jon Cowherd, bassist Hans Glawischnig, drummer E.J

Chris Cuzme

Born: February 4, 1977

Chris Cuzme is known throughout New York City for his tireless energy and inexhaustible creativity. With sensitive melodic ingenuity and a rich, bold saxophone tone with which to deliver it, he has been known to hypnotize listeners into overwhelming joy and make them weep without fully understanding why. Audience members have likened their listening experiences to being struck by a velvet hammer, and being told "something they've always known in words they've never heard before". Performers have likened playing with Cuzme to performing with an extremely passionate, far less monotonous, and infinitely more sensitive Energizer Bunny. Cuzme attended the world-renowned Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan* and continued his musical education at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey