Results for "Saxophone"

Carlos Lopez-Real

Carlos Lopez-Real sax Carlos’ involvement with the F-IRE collective includes recording and touring with Justin Quinn (featured on his award-winning album ‘Before I Forget’), Tom Arthurs’ Centripede, Jonathan Bratoeff’s Quintet, Barak Schmool’s Meta Meta and the F-IRE large ensemble. He has collaborated with Zoe Rahman, Gary Husband and the Nicolas Meier Group. Carlos studied Indian music and held the sax chair in John Mayer’s classic band Indo-Jazz Fusions. He also features with salsa king Roberto Pla and the Tito Puente orchestra. Carlos is the founder of ‘e17 jazz’, a new East London-based collective spawned out of both F-IRE and LOOP associations, whose members include Brigitte Beraha, John Turville, Adam Bishop, Will Collier and Dave Manington

Mark Allen Felton

Born: June 6

A Chicago native, saxophonist extraordinaire, Mark Allen Felton aka Panther drew upon a wealth of influences from Funk to Jazz to Gospel. At the tender age of 11 he began an artistic journey inspired by such musical greats as Grover Washington Jr., Earth Wind & Fire, Sonny Stitt and Kool & the Gang. ​ By the time he graduated from high school, Felton had received numerous awards for his musical excellence including a scholarship to Texas Southern University in Houston, TX. This extraordinarily gifted artist has had the honor of sharing the stage with some of the most revered artists and musicians in the world of smooth jazz and R&B including: Al Jarreau, Patti Labelle, Gerald Albright, Bobby Womack, Billy Preston, Janelle Monae and many others. A prolific composer, Mark Allen Felton has written several hundred songs including the theme song for the nationally syndicated radio program “Radioscope” and the theme song for comedian Michael Colyar’s comedy special

Jesse Bennett

Born: December 31, 1951

/" Jesse Bennett-12/31/51 Jazz musician-tenor/soprano saxes Educator-theory/improve/technique/ensembles-all instruments 373 Broad Street, Waverly, NY, 14892 607.565.3729 / [email protected] _ CURRICULUM VITAE: I studied privately with Dave Gross and Joe Allard and at the Berklee School of Music before moving to Europe in 1978/9, where, for 18+ years, I initially performed with the Stefan Bauer Quartet, the Reinhardt Gloeder Quartet, and toured with Klaus Lenz Big Band. I also :freelanced with Dennis Luxion, Charles Green, Charlie Mariano, John Thomas, Mel Lewis, Joachim Kuhn, among others

Alain Samba

Born: July 10

TENOR/SOPRANO SAX PLAYER, COMPOSER AND PERCUSSIONIST.HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN POINTE NOIRE (CONGO BRAZZAVILLE). HIS MUSIC IS A MIX OF MODERN JAZZ, TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC SUCH AS POLYPHONIES AND POLYRHYTHMS. HE IS LOOKING FOR CONTACTS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND MEET EVERY KIND OF PEOPLE! ALAIN SAMBA/ Alain Samba is a saxophone player, composer and percussionist. He early began to play different kinds of percussions in his native region such as sanza (kalimba), kikongui, marimba and drums. He was influenced by listening to both african and european music. At the age of 8 he moved to France where he studied saxophone and harmony at the American School of Modern Music in Paris. Tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone are his main instruments

Lee Taylor

Born: May 25, 1967

Lee Taylor is a woodwind player who has been an active part of the Albuquerque music scene for several years. Lee is a graduate of the University of New Mexico where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Saxophone Performance. Lee has performed with many of the top names in the music business including such popular artists as The Four Tops, Crystal Gayle, Olivia Newton-John, The O'Jays, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Temptations, and Frankie Valli. As a jazz artist, Lee has performed with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Louis Bellson, John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Joe Lovano, Kevin Mahogany, The New York Voices, Bobby Shew, Lew Tabackin, Clark Terry, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Larry O'Brien

Etienne BOUYER

Born: March 18, 1982

Etienne Bouyer is graduated from the American School of Modern Music, the "Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood" and the "Conservatoire de Paris" (DEM Jazz), and studied with Charlie Haden, David Liebman, Brad Wheeler, Sam Newsome, Steve Houben, Sylvain Beuf, Eric Barret, Jean-Charles Richard, François Jeanneau, Pierrick Pedron, André Villéger… He gave numerous concerts in France, Belgium, Morocco, Tunisia and the United States, and teaches saxophone and jazz improvisation. He is currently playing and writing for different projects (Yuval Amihaï Ensemble, Stani Jardel Quintet, Bl

Rick Britto

Born: July 16, 1955

Rick Britto is a well known jazz musician from the New England area. Britto's latest recording projects include: "For Your Love, "Conversations with Erik & I", Trine: " +1" and "In The Sky" all released on the new TrineArc Music label in the last two years from 2009-2011. Previous releases on other labels include: The Lord's Orphans: "Holy City", Trine: "Politics", Andy McWain Ensemble: "Resemblance" ," One O'clock Jump Live" As a musician, Rick Britto has performed with many artists and groups both nationally and locally including Karl Berger, Santi Debriano, Harold Jones, Freddie Redd, Kate McGarry, One O'clock Jump, Royal Hartigan, Wes Brown, Armsted Christian, Jim Robitaille, Semenya McCord, Marcelle Gauvin, John Harrison, Chris Poudrier, Bruce Gertz, Dave Zinno, Herb King, Kenny Wensel, Lou Columbo, Frank Wilkins, Alon Yavnai and numerous other musicians. He has been double billed with such jazz notables as Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Rosemary Clooney, Dick Johnson, Dave McKenna, The Artie Shaw Band, The Buddy Rich Band, and Count Basie's Orchestra. In the world of popular music, Rick Britto has performed with many R&B recording acts from The Drifters and The Tuneweavers to Tavares and even Queen Latifa to name a few. Rick Britto is also a well known jazz educator from the New England area

Todd Herbert

Born: June 27, 1970

Todd Herbert began his life as a musician at the age of 10 and has not looked back. Beginning on clarinet, he progressed to alto saxophone, eventually settling on the tenor sax. Herbert continued his music studies in high school and with private teachers in his hometown of Evanston, IL.. Advanced studies came at the University of Miami, considered one of the country's foremost training grounds for jazz musicians. Herbert has now been playing professionally for 15 years, first with the Charles Earland Quartet. His stint with Earland took him around the US and his first taste of the international scene with stops in Germany, Japan and London

Ben Wendel

Grammy nominated performer, composer and producer Ben Wendel was educated at the Eastman School of Music in New York. Since graduating he has enjoyed a varied career as a performer, composer, producer and most recently, conductor. Highlights 
include multiple domestic and international tours with such artists as Cuban drumming legend Ignacio Berroa, Thelonious Monk Piano Competition Winner Tigran Hamasyan and Hip Hop artist Snoop Dogg. Ben is a founding member of the Grammy nominated group Kneebody. In addition to playing saxophone and bassoon, Ben also doubles on the piano.

 As a composer he has received an ASCAP Jazz Composer Award, was a winner in the 2007 International Songwriting Competition and received the 2008 and 2011 Chamber Music America “New Works Grant.” A frequent writer of film music, he co-wrote the score for John Krasinski’s 2009 adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men." Ben was honored to work with conductor Kent Nagano in producing a series of concerts for the Festpeil Plus in Munich, Germany

Bill McHenry

Bill McHenry is a saxophonist, composer and bandleader living in Brooklyn New York. He is known for his melodic/free form composing and improvising, demostrated most recently on his newest CD "ROSES". New York Times critic Ben Ratliff writes: "Any musician who works so effectively against a common language, and uses cliché so little in the process, is worth listening to. There are tons of young jazz saxophonists out there pursuing ideas of harmony and structure and rhythm, but he has something rare going for him. He has a sound. Mr. McHenry is a fresh new voice: He can play with un-orthodox structure and get as free as you want, but he maintains a ripe, lovely tone straight out of the 1950's