Results for "Saxophone"

Mike Walton

Michael Wallace

Michael Wallace is an Australian saxophonist, composer, and improviser working primarily in the Melbourne jazz scene.

Dairo Miyamoto

Born: February 10, 1957

James Senese

Born: June 6, 1945

Gaetano "James" Senese is an Italian saxophonist, composer and singer-songwriter. Senese was born in Naples, the son of Anna Senese and James Smith, an American soldier from North Carolina in Italy because of World War II. Senese's father moved back to the US eighteen months after Gaetano's birth and never returned. Senese started playing the saxophone at 12 years old. He made his professional debut in the 1960s, as a member of the rhythm and blues band The Showmen (later known as Showmen 2), with whom he won the 1968 edition of Cantagiro. In 1974 Senese co-founded and led the critically acclaimed jazz-rock group Napoli Centrale

Thomas Tiger Rogers

Born: April 4, 1982

Thomas Jefferson Rogers Jr. aka Tiger Rogers was born on April 4, 1982. His father is the late Thomas Jefferson Rogers Sr. and mother, Mary Louise Rogers. As a child, Tiger had a unique fascination with art and music... After graduating from Wingfield High School in 2000, Tiger then enrolled at The University of Southern Mississippi, majoring in Music Performance with an emphasis in Jazz Studies. Tiger began studying jazz under the direction of, Larry Panella. Over the years, Tiger has continued to search for what he calls, "The Indigo Sound" in his music. Since he was a kid, he noticed that when he read letters and counted numbers, each letter of the alphabet and number from the numeric system had a color

Adam Gresko

Clare Burhenne

Kieran Loehr

Hannah Krall

Lluc Casares

Born: August 31, 1990

Lluc Casares (Barcelona, ​​1990). Tenor Saxophone and Clarinet, fond of composition and arranging for different instrumental formats.

Lluc is the first person from the Iberian Peninsula to have studied the prestigious Artist Diploma program at the Juilliard School in New York City under the tutelage of master teachers as Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Washington and Ben Wolfe.

Lluc has released 4 albums as a leader; the last one, Ride (The Changes 2023), recorded in Amsterdam featuring the master guitarist Jesse Van Ruller. Then Septet (The Changes 2021) and before that Sketches Overseas (Outside In Music 2018), recorded in New York. Sketches Overseas won the “Best Jazz Album of 2018” award by the Enderrock magazine in Spain. Red (Temps Records 2015) was his first album as a leader. Lluc has recorded more than 20 albums as a sideman, co-leads the Barcelona Art Orchestra and is member of the bands Smack Dab or The Gramophone Allstars Big Band among others. He has played in some of the most important festivals in Europe such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Marciac Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, Baloise Session, and the Terrassa Jazz Festival among others. He has also played in clubs such as the Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola and Fat Cat in NYC, Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Jamboree in Barcelona and the Jazz at Lincoln Center in Shanghai. Throughout his career, Lluc has been fortunate to share stage with such musicians as Dr. John, Nicholas Payton, Frank Wess, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Jon Faddis, Jesse Davis, Joe Farnsworth, Jesse Van Ruller, Arturo Sandoval, Wendell Brunious, Grant Stewart, Ben Van Gelder or Benjamin Herman among others.