Results for "Saxophone"

Allan Meyerson

Allan Meyerson has been playing and teaching saxophone, flute and clarinet for 55 years. He is an accomplished classical as well as jazz and blues musician. His first professional jobs in the late 60’s were playing in the show bands of the many hotels in New York with as many as 5 different acts a night. Sight reading and being able to switch styles were a must and taught him valuable lessons in musicianship. Growing up in NYC gave him an opportunity to study with the best musicians in the world. Allan started in his high school band and soon realized the instruction there was adequate but not enough to satisfy him

André Lambert

Born: December 28, 1954

André Lambert, saxophone/EWI. Après des études au BerkLee College of Music de Boston. André Lambert a étudié le saxophone avec le réputé Phill Woods. Il détient aussi une maîtrise en musicologie de lamusique populaire de l’Université Laval. Après avoir tenu les rennes du groupe Brette, iL a collaboré avec de n ombreux artistes tant au Québec (Daniel Lavoie, Charlebois, Dubois) qu’en Europe et en Asie. Il nous propose un nouveau répertoire axé sur l’improvisation et le GROOVE. After studying at Boston’s BerkLee Colleges of Music, André Lambert has studied privately with acclaimed saxophonist Pihil Woods

Andre Ward

Smooth jazz saxophonist André Ward was born and raised in Chicago. His first instrument, which he took up at age eight, was the snare drum. He later moved to trumpet and tenor saxophone before settling on alto saxophone and becoming sufficiently proficient to earn a music-performing scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music.

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Sandy Gabriel

Born: May 10, 1900

SANDY GABRIEL Musical producer, composer, arranger, winner of the National Music Award in the category of jazz, most important prize winner Caribbean as best concert of the year, sovereign Awards 2012 and nominated in 2015 as best artist featured on the outside. is the saxophonist Dominican jazz most prominent internationally, which has participated in various international jazz festival, and has taken his music to countries like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, New Delhi, India, Vienna, Austria, Germany, Canada , France, New York, Puerto Rico, and many Latin American countries. Also he participated as a soloist saxophonist national symphony orchestra, led by Maestro Jose Antonio Molina laureate

Hanging Hearts

HANGING HEARTS IS:Chris Weller - tenor saxophoneCole DeGenova - keyboards, synth bassQuin Kirchner - drums, percussionRooted in Chicago’s rich tradition of forward-thinking jazz and experimental music, Hanging Hearts is a progressive trio that thrives at the intersection of energy, groove, and improvisation. Led by saxophonist Chris Weller and featuring Cole DeGenova on keyboards and synth bass alongside Quin Kirchner on drums, the band channels the city’s history of musical innovation. Melding jazz with rock intensity, electronic textures, and avant-garde sensibilities, Hanging Hearts embodies the genre-blurring ethos that has long defined Chicago’s creative music scene.Whether drawing from post-bop, punk, free jazz, or electronic minimalism, Hanging Hearts delivers music that is both visceral and cerebral—music that speaks to the head, the heart, and everything in between."...intelligent and fascinating fusion for the 21st century." - Roger Farbey, All About Jazz

Grant Larson

An active recitalist and proponent of new music, saxophonist Grant Larson has premiered works for saxophone by Philip Wharton, Chiayu Hsu, Steven Makala, and John Drumheller at regional and national conventions. He is the soprano saxophonist with the Colorado-based Chautauqua Saxophone Quartet and has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the Fargo/Moorhead Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Larson holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Saxophone Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Henry Fernandez

Born: November 19, 1999

J. (Jay) Sylvester

Born: August 8, 1968

About J Sylvester Joseph Sylvester Davis III was born in Danville, Illinois. Having grown up in a ministers household, Joseph started playing drums and saxophone in the church band at the age of 11. As saxophone began to gain more of his interest, he pursued the learning of that instrument throughout junior high school into high school. In 1985 he made the decision to move to Memphis, TN with his mother. This was the beginning of his journey to learning what playing the saxophone truly meant. Joseph soon learned music theory from his high school band director Mr. Walter Banks. Although being offered several different musical scholarships from various schools, Joseph made the decision to join the US Marine Corps

Josh Lee

Josh Lee is a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Lee, the son of a medical doctor who is also a saxophonist, is a graduate of Temple University - Boyer College of Music. Josh Lee has performed with ensembles like Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, Norman David and the Eleventet and the New York Classics. He is co-founder of Jazz Lives Philadelphia and leads Josh Lee and the Family, The Life Brass Band and the Jazz Lives Philadelphia Big Band. Josh Lee is currently baritone saxophonist for the Count Basie Orchestra.