Results for "Saxophone"

Brad Gregory

Born: December 24, 1957

Brad Gregory was born and raised in Edmonton Canada. He was taught by G Gordon Nicholson and was heavily influenced by many of the great Edmonton musicians such as PJ Perry, Harry Pinchin and Tommy Banks. Brad attended the University of North Texas where he was a member of the One O’Clock Lab Band. Brad is also an alumnus of the Houston Jazz Orchestra. After working in New York City as a professional jazz musician for several years Brad began a full-time career in the plastics industry and relocated his family to Kansas City. He performs regularly with his own groups, The Brad Gregory Sextet as well as Kansas City Reeds and Rhythm as well as The Marcus Hampton Sextet, Tim Doherty’s Nine Plus One, the Boulevard Big Band

Ariel Alexander

Born: January, 1983

Dr. Ariel Alexander has gained recognition as a Los Angeles jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. Originally from St Louis, Ariel earned her B.A. at Indiana University and her M.A and Doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. As a leader, Ariel has presented concerts throughout the US, South America, Europe and Asia. Her performances include internationally recognized venues such as the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Ravinia Music Festival (Chicago, IL), Evans Jazz Club and All That Jazz (Seoul, Korea), the National Theater ( San Jose, Costa Rica) the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference(NewYork,NY),and TwinsJazz (Seattle, WA). She recently performed and arranged for the "We Love Ella" tribute on PBS on which she performed with Take 6, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Stevie Wonder, Ruben Studdard, James Moody, Jon Faddis, and Monica Mancini

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Paul Zaborac

Born: October 5, 1987

Paul Zaborac is a versatile saxophonist, composer, and educator. Originally from the Des Moines, Iowa area, he seeks to explore and push the musical boundaries of the saxophone through performance and composition, and to share this knowledge through teaching. Well versed in both classical and jazz saxophone, Paul brings a unique and diverse set of skills to his performances on the instrument. This unique combination of skills is displayed in the original compositions on his debut album Actualize (2012) where he explores how the saxophone can be used as an accompaniment instrument in improvised music

Ruud Bergamin

Born: November 17, 1945

Bergamin, Ruud saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and music teacher. Plays all types of saxophones and clarinet. He picked up the saxophone at the age 14 years, first the soprano saxophone, later on the tenor saxophone. Started to perform in a band at age 15 (Gouda, Revival Swing Combo). From that time he played in several groups, such as Gijs Hendriks orkest, Utrechts Jazz Orkest, Jazzmijn, De Boven¬toon, Nieuw Rotterdams Peil, B-Wegen, Kapsalon Orkest, Windkracht 13, Enterprise Big Band, Mood Indigo, OMUZO-band, Kwartet Wim Kegel, Formatie "Doodlin", Lakers and Co, Brazi¬lianBreeze, Ruud Bergamin Quartet, Windmill Big Band, Aafje de Bloois Quintet, Jazzmer, Harry's Jazz en Blues¬band, B'Bounce Company

Gabor Bolla

Born: October 18, 1988

He learned to play the clarinet in a virtuoso manner as a young child and won the Hungarian “Music School Competition” by the age of 12. Inspired by his music-loving parents, Bolla soon discovered jazz for himself and started to play the saxophone. A career as a child prodigy followed: After only six months of practicing, Robert Maloschik from public Hungarian radio discovered Bolla and started to support him. Bolla got to play with the great Hungarian jazz artists and was invited to Getxo Jazz Festival in Bilbao, Spain. During this time, he also met his musical soul mate – the classically educated pianist Robert Lakatos “We are like brothers” Bolla comments his professional relationship to Lakatos.

Celine Bonacina

Born: July 23, 1975

Bonacina started learning music at the age of eight. She got classical saxophone lessons at various conservatories in Belfort, Besançon and Paris. Between 1996 and 1998, Bonacina played baritone saxophone in various jazz big bands in Paris. She then moved to Réunion, for seven years to teach saxophone at the Conservatoire National de Région During this time, she participated at numerous festivals in the Indien Oceans region. She was musically influenced of the inclusion of the living rhythms there, and this is reflected in her later compositions. Returning to Paris, her debut album Vue d'en Haut was released in 2005. Bonacina has collaborated with musicians such as the French pianist Laurent de Wilde, Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, vibraphonist Mike Mainieri, saxophonist Andy Sheppard and guitarists Yannick Robert and Nguyên Lê

Nick Roth

Born: April 27, 1982

Nick Roth is a saxophonist, composer, educator and producer based in Dublin, Ireland. His work explores the liberation of improvisation from composition, the impact of natural form on technology and the contemporary interpretatio n of traditional music. A curious predisposition and a constant refusal to accept the existence of boundaries between the real and the imaginary has led to collaborations with many of the world's leading performers, composers, choreographers, visual artist s and ensembles. Similarly, a deep fascination with emergent pattern has led to on - going conversations with key scientific institutions in the interwoven fields of mathematical biology, forest canopy ecology and hydrology

Terry Hanck

Blues and soul music fans know that the soundtrack to early rock' n' roll ran on three-minute instrumentals with sax in the lead, and was directly related to 1950s and 1960s New Orleans R&B hits, along with that deep-fried wildness that came from Memphis. With this history lesson in mind, old school rock 'n' soul saxophonist and singer Terry Hanck makes perfect sense. Clearly, Hanck has worshipped at the right Southern altars— those of such iconic R&B brothers as Fats Domino, Ray Charles, B. B. King, Lee Allen and King Curtis. "I write songs that you think you've heard for years," says the South Florida-based Hanck, who's got suave movie-star looks and a good time presence that immutably anchors the old-style R&B he adores. As Living Blues writer Lee Hildebrand testified, "Hanck is one of the most formidable saxophonists in the blues and soul business

Mario Castro

Born: September 15, 1888

The Mario Castro Quintet is one of the brightest and up and coming jazz groups of today. The group is lead by Mario Castro, a 2011 Berklee College of Music graduate from Humacao, Puerto Rico. At 24, Castro is already an accomplished musician and has led his group, to many legendary stages including: Newport Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Fillmore in SF, Sevilla Jazz Festival (SPAIN), among others. He also held a residency at Wally's Jazz Club in Boston, the historical landmark frequented by many great musicians. Castro currently lives in NYC. Mario Castro will be debuting his "quintet + STRINGS" project