Results for "Saxophone"

Jacques Helmus

Born: August 15, 1954

From the age of five, he studied music theory, then the traditional clarinet in Paris followed by saxophone studies at the conservatory of Lyons (the Lyons school of French classical saxophone) where he achieved a gold medal. Essentially self-taught in jazz and deeply influenced by classical and religious music, his musical education has been supplemented with great jazz musicians such as Bill Dobbins, Ramon Ricker at Eastman school and David Liebman in New York. The professional career of Jacques Helmus is strewn with varied and enriching collaborations. He has played with Liane Foly, Francis Lalanne, Thierry Durbet (arrangeur), Nicolas Peyrac, Thierry Pastor, Michel Leeb. Other musical dimensions include being a member of the full orchestra of Jean Louis Longnon Claude Cagnasso, member of the Michel Perez de Mario Stanchev group with whom he played alongside Jay Anderson, Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum, also member of 'the O.R.J' (the Rhone-Alp big band)

Peter Van Siclen

Born: January 29, 1984

Peter Van Siclen is a graduate of Hamilton College and earned his Masters of Music in jazz composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Although saxophone is his main instrument he also plays flute and has been known to play more than one saxophone at a time. Electronics are often a part of his live set up and he is constantly introducing more experimental devices all of the time. He is currently working on incorporating his compositions for Game Boy into a live music setting. Peter Van Siclen loves jazz and has performed in several different big bands and combos

Joel Miller

Winner of the 2013 Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Montreal saxophonist Joel Miller marries his awe-inspiring technique and boundless sense of musical adventure with a pop musician’s desire to make music that moves people.

His compositions are inspired by the melodic simplicity and emotional depth of American folk music, and they’ve been praised by Downbeat as “passionate and creative, melodic yet exploratory.” His free-spirited eclecticism has been equally lauded by the magazine for “illustrating the cross-pollination emblematic of the Montreal jazz community.” Dave Douglas calls Miller "a breath of fresh air and one of the great pleasures of the Montreal scene."

Vincent Mardens

Born: May 17, 1965

Born in Brussels in 1965 Study piano since the age of 5 Takes clarinet lessons at 12 I play tenor, alto, soprano saxophones since the age of 15 (I'm now almost 43!)

Andrew Beals

Andrew Beals joined legendary jazz organist, "Brother" Jack McDuff and the "Heatin' System" in 1986. Beals became the latest in a long line of Jazz Saxophone greats, including Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Red Holloway, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Harold Vick, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk to work with Jack McDuff's band. It was marked by a busy performance schedule, which included lengthy tours of North America and Europe. Andrew Beals has appeared as a leader of his own band and as a featured soloist with Jack McDuff, and others, at many renowned Jazz clubs and festivals. Beals was a semifinalist at the 1993 Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition; and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious NYU Jazz Orchestra Scholarship for graduate studies in jazz performance and composition

Martin Montenegro

Musician and photographer

Buyu Ambroise & The Blues in Red Band

Alix Buyu Ambroise was born in Haiti in 1953. After a brief stay in the Republic of Congo where his father was employed as a professor for two years, he moved to the United States and has been living there for the last 35 years. Alix was drawn to the saxophone at a young age, experimenting with the instrument as early as age sixteen as a high school student in Brooklyn, New York, during the early 70’s, a fertile period for both Haitian music and American jazz. His passion for jazz music led him to study with jazz legends such as Frank Foster, Jimmy Owens, and John Lewis. Alix performed in New York City with various small groups over the past 20 years, playing usually Haitian konpa music or jazz

Gene Cipriano

Gene Cipriano was a part of the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra around 1967 when Frank Zappa recorded the orchestral parts for Lumby Gravy. Cipriano has played all but three of the Academy Awards Shows since 1959.

Felipe Salles

Since founding the Interconnections Ensemble in 2016, saxophonist/bandleader Felipe Salles has used the group not just as a showcase for his powerful big band compositions but as a vehicle for illuminating diverse perspectives on the immigrant experience. The ensemble’s 2018 debut, The Lullaby Project, reflected his personal journey through the lullabies of his native Brazil, while its 2020 follow-up, The New Immigrant Experience, channeled anger and frustration over the tempestuous political climate into a tribute to “Dreamers” – the hundreds of thousands of people protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Eric Jenks

Born: 1985

I'll fill this in a bit more later, but I'm an up and coming alto saxophonist from Upstate NY.