Results for "Saxophone"

Matt Marantz

Born: January 17, 1986

Matt Marantz is a freelance jazz saxophonist based in New Orleans. He is arecent graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where he received a Bachelorof Music in Jazz Saxophone Performance on a full-tuition scholarship. Whileat MSM he studied privately with such notable educators and performers asBob Mintzer, Steve Wilson, Garry Dial, and John Riley. He initiated outsidelessons with Chris Cheek and Steve Cardenas. Matt was selected to perform inan honor jazz quartet during his 2008 MSM graduation ceremony, playing amusical tribute to Honorary Doctorate inductee, Billy Joel.

Since 2000 Matt has garnered a total of 26 Downbeat Student Music Awards.He received his first DB award as an 8th grader, winning the covetedInstrumental Jazz Soloist award (Junior High Division). He went on from thereto be named the top jazz instrumental soloist (Performing Arts High SchoolDivision) three more times and was featured on the 2003 cover of the 26thAnnual DB Student Music Awards section entitled “4-peat! Matt Marantz Earns4th Instrumental Soloist Award”. His DB awards include wins in multiplecategories, including Best Jazz Instrumental Soloist, Best Jazz InstrumentalGroup, Best Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist, and Best Blues/Pop/Rock Group. Hismost recent DB awards include another win as Best Jazz Soloist for 2006 inthe College Division and an Outstanding Performance win in the 2007 JazzInstrumental Soloist College Division category.

Lukas Hein

Born: August 25, 1981

I'm a world citizen trying to improve my art and bring a little bit more beauty into the world. I feel fortunate to have discovered this incredible music and encountered some of its finest practitioners, and am happy to have the chance to keep playin the horn. Some of the players I've been lucky enough to know, play with and learn from include Marvin "Doc" Holladay (currently residing in Ecuador!), Larry Miller from Nanaimo, British Columbia, and Robert Crowell, Warren Rand, Renato Caranto and Mel Brown from Portland, Oregon. Shao Way Wu, a wonderful bass player and from Arcata, California has also helped me immensely.Studying with Tom Bergeron at Western Oregon University was a real treat! And of course, the members of Dialeto Brasileiro have had a huge impact on my musical life; if you don't know these players, look them up: Cassio Vianna, Wagner Trindade and Claudio Felix. I studied music as an undergraduate at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, gigged around Humboldt County for a few years, and earned a master's degree from Western Oregon University in 2011

Butch Thomas

Born St. Louis, Missouri, received Bachelor of Fine Arts from Webster University. Butch has worked with Jaco Pastorious(1983-86 Live performances & recordings), Thomas Dolby (1987-88 Tour & Television recordings), Lenny Kravitz(World tours & recordings) , Vanessa Paradis (1993-94 World tours & recordings) , Sting (1996-97 World tours & recordings), Julian Joseph (1998-2001), The New Noaks Internationals (2001-2003 Tours & recordings).

Quanti Bomani

A New York City native, with a traditional straight ahead, modal jazz idiom background, saxophonist and composer Quanti Bomani, never one to be quantified, expanded his musical journeys to embrace the Diaspora of Afro/Eastern- Caribbean influence. In recent years, Quanti has been performing in the Eastern Caribbean with various artists that have influenced his transition into the Afro-Caribbean jazz sound. Franklin Miller, Bay Area guitarist and composer, originally from Minneapolis, has teamed up with Quanti to develop this new direction that unfolds into the Urban Insight band. Both artists are currently working on recording projects for the band which features such notables as Mexico City native Arturo Carrillo on principal Percussion, Tony Price on Timbales and Percussion, Cliff Gamble on Piano, Arlington Houston on Bass, Bill Norwood on Drums, and Quanti Bomani on Saxophones

Javier Girotto

Born: April 17, 1965

Javier Edgardo Girotto plays soprano, baritone saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, quenas, sicus. He was born in Cordoba, Argentina and took an interest in music thanks to his grandfather A.L.Caroli, band director, first playing snare drum, then clarinet in E flat in the Infanto Juvenil de Cordoba and in the band of Villa del Rosario, then he changed to clarinet in B flat. For a musician to change from clarinet to saxophone is quite natural. Having chosen sax alto, in Buenos Aires, he looked for someone who could introduce him to jazz, but had no luck. Once again in Cordoba he created his first jazz- inspired groups, and dedicated himself also to commercial music known as “Quartetos”. At sixteen he studied the classics, enrolled in the Provincial De Cordoba Conservatory and as a saxophone class did not exist, he attended a clarinet and flute class obtaining an average level in both instruments.. Together with his studies at the conservatory he collaborated with various groups, among which the Vertiente, a mixture of fusion and argentinian folklore, the Jazz 440, “Jam”, Enzo Piccioni Quartet and the Juan Ciallella Quartet. At age 19 he won a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music and at last all the jazz doors opened

Lotte Anker

Born: 1958

Lotte Anker was born 1958 in Copenhagen. As a child and young she studied classical piano but took up the saxophone and improvised music in 1980, primarily influenced through the music of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter but also the more experimental jazzscene in Scandinavia at that time. She has studied music at the Copenhagen University from 1980-84 and par-ticipated in several courses and workshops lead by e.g.: Joe Henderson, David Liebman, John Tchicai, Marilyn Mazur, David Murray. As a composer she is mostly selftaught but has a degree in composition from Rhytmic Conservatory, Cph. Compositionclass led by Bob Brookmeyer as well as danish contemporary composers such as Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgren, Svend Hvidtfeldt-Nielsen, Hans Abrahamsen. Lotte Anker has played in various danish/scandinavian groups e.g.: Marilyn Mazurs “Primi Band" ,Two Bass-Hit, Saxmachine (saxophonequartet), Jazzgroup 90, Art-Out, Marilyn Mazurs “Summerquartet” etc

Erly Thornton

From the beginning... Playing the saxophone has always been emotionally intense for Erly Thornton. Each performance is a connection that this artist and his audience mutually enjoy! Born in Nashville into a family that had artistic talent on both sides, mother being a painter and father being a trumpet player, he had no choice but to experience a double dose of creativity from birth. Starting on the sax in the 5th grade, Erly was asked to play in front of “the boys”, his father’s musician friends, every weekend to the music of Ray Charles. His improvisational style started there. Erly began studying the music in his room to learn every lick he could from jazz artists such as Herb Alpert, Grover Washington Jr., David Sanborn, Najee, George Howard, Brecker Brother Band, and others, learning their works by memory

Trygve Seim

Trygve Seim was born in Oslo in 1971, and took up the saxophone at the age of 14. His earliest inspirations were, he says, Jan Garbarek, electric Miles Davis, and ECM's documentation of European improvising. Seim studied jazz at the Trondheim Conservatory. During those studies he met pianist Christian Wallumrod, co-producer of the present disc and an ECM artist in his own right (see “No Birch” ECM 1628) and together they formed the group Airamero, which made Scandinavian tours with Kenny Wheeler and played in Germany with Nils Petter Molvaer. In 1992, Seim, now based back in Oslo, joined the “little big band” Oslo 13 and appears on its 1993 album “Live”; when leader Jon Balke left the group in 1995, Seim and fellow saxophonist Morten Halle became the ensemble's principal composers.

In 1993, Seim co-founded the quartet The Source, a group originally rooted in the free jazz tradition but which has since developed a personal style of its own

Dan Pratt

Saxophonist-composer Dan Pratt has been favored as “a powerful player” by Jazz Times, with the PA Daily News adding, “Pratt is an impressive tenor sax man. Seriously, he's got energy to blow buildings down with his horn and a style that's so elastic he can wrap it all back up together again when he's done.” As a composer, Dan has been called “gifted,” (Birmingham Times) and “a true home run power hitter” (All Music Guide) whose “writing for a band is its principal asset.” (Master of a Small House) Following two critically-acclaimed organ group outings, Dan heads in a new direction on Hymn for the Happy Man, his fourth recording as a leader and debut for his own Same Island Music imprint

Randy Janoski

Randy Janoski (an Antigua Winds Saxophone Artist) began playing saxophone around the age of 10 in France. By 12 he was sitting in with the expatriate American jazz artists in Orleans and Paris. As a teenager Randy played with several bands early in his career including The Lancers, Ballin’ Jack, The Majestics, The Heard, Northwest Passage and The Flock. He did session work with the major R&B artists with Stax in Memphis and then moved with others to Muscle Shoals. As a studio musician with Columbia (Nashville) he recorded with and was sent out on the road with many great artists; Perry Como, Brenda Lee, Tony Bennett, Julie London, Elvis Presley, Kitty Wells, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torm and many others