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After studying the clarinet and the tenor, he pursues with the alto, with Jerry Wald, since age 16. Having met, in Chicago, Lennie Tristano, in the mid 40ties and studying with him, he joins Claude Thornhill (1947-8), with whom he did his first recordings. It is frequently emphasized in many discussions of the Konitz career that the late Lennie Tristano was a shaping force. Absolutely true, but Lennie simply firmed up an approach to playing that was already in place. Lee's earliest recorded solos, with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in 1947, illustrate that Lee has embarked on a wholly individual stylistic journey.
Tommy Morimoto, saxophone
Brubeck Institute
Fellow, Graduate on the North Carlolina School of Arts, Downbeat Student
Award 2001, 2002
John
Coltrane, saxophone 1926 - timeless
His Official
website. Great!
Tenor saxophonist and composer Michael Brecker is an eleven-time Grammy-winner, and the first to win both the "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance" and "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo" two years in a row.
was born in Helena, Arkansas on May 31, 1927 to a mother who played piano and a father who played violin. At the age of five, he and his mother moved to Chicago, where he graduated from DuSable High School and attended the Conservatory of Music.
It's as if the legacies of tenor titans such as Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane had swelled into baggage, obstacles as much as inspirations. Ware—who studied briefly with Rollins as a teen—relieves burdens without misplacing valuables: Rollins's streaming ideas and bristling low end, Coltrane's questing sound and pealing highs, not to mention Ben Webster's free-swinging swagger and Albert Ayler's gritty tone, are all in his playing. But Ware's massive sound is anything but derivative. (...) The quartet he's led since the late 1980s is the most resilient, least heralded, best-sounding supergroup in modern jazz.
Larry Blumenfeld - Village Voice - 04/15/2005
Greg
Abate, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer
continues as an International Jazz/Recording Artist with 150 days a year
touring the globe.In the mid 70’s after finishing a four year program
at Berklee College Of Music, Greg played lead alto for the Ray Charles
Orchestra for 2 years. In 1978 Greg formed his group Channel One which
was a favorite in the New England area, and from there had the opportunity
to play tenor sax with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra under leadership
of Dick Johnson in 1986 and ’87.
www adres: Greg
Abate homepage
After his music studies in Tallahassee(1944/48) he became a high school band director at the Dillard High School/Fort Lauderdale (1948/50)in his native Florida , following in the footsteps of his educator-father (a trumpet player), before moving to New York in 1955
www adres: www.cannonball-adderley.com
The Sidney Bechet Society, Ltd.® was formed in July of 1997. Its charter is to promote the music inspired by Sidney Bechet. The projects include proclamations for the Sidney Bechet Day in Queens and Brooklyn, a Sidney Bechet stamp, publishing the Bechet Quarterly, presenting jazz concerts and changing the name of Quincy Street to Bechet Street. The first jazz concert featuring Bob Wilber and Benny Waters, was named concert of the year by John Klee in the Mississippi Rag for the year 1997. The same honor was extended to our jazz concert in 1998 and 2001.
www adres: www.sidneybechet.org
For over six decades, Benny Carter has occupied a unique place in American music. As Duke Ellington once wrote: "The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he."
www adres: www.bennycarter.com
The man who once trained for a life as a manager at Sears stands instead before 17 young men, bouncing his right leg so fiercely it seems strapped to an old-fashioned paint mixer.
www adres: http://www.niu.edu/pubaffairs/nnow/winter02/carter.html
Rarely does one person change the way we listen to music, but such a man is Ornette Coleman. Since the late 1950's, when he burst onto the New York Jazz scene with his legendary engagement at the Five Spot, Coleman has been teaching the world new ways of listening to music.
www adres: www.harmolodic.com/ornette/
In a career that spans more than forty years as a composer, performer and conductor, John Dankworth combines confidence and virtuosity with eclecticism and unpredictability to continually cross conventional musical boundaries. It is unlikely that there is a British musician better known for a wider range of musical activities than Dankworth.
www adres: www.quarternotes.com
"...Eskelin continues to be the most inventive American tenor player in creative music..."
(Down Beat Nov. 1996)
www adres: http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/
Bill
Evans, saxophone
Hello everyone and welcome to my website.
For those of you who may not be so jazz-educated, I am the saxophone player,
not the pianist. (who passed away in 1980, a major loss to jazz ) We both
played with Miles Davis, Both recorded for blue-note records at some point,
with one major difference. (I know, there are more differences-relax)
The other Bill Evans recorded something like 100 solo CDs and I have recorded
13....
www adres: http://billevanssax.com
Patrick is one of those extraordinary talents who combines raw talent and energy with a singular ability to captivate an audience with his youthful charm, sincerity and pure magnetism. His focus as a songwriter and performing artist is "Old School" R&B, Soul and Jazz. He combines the influences of Funk, "Old School" R&B and a flavor of Jazz to create the unique sound of Patrick Lamb.
www adres: www.patricklamb.com
was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 4, 1946. He began classical piano lessons at the age of nine and saxophone by twelve. His interest in jazz was sparked by seeing John Coltrane perform live in New York City clubs such as Birdland, the Village Vanguard and the Half Note.
www adres: http://upbeat.com/lieb/
Branford Marsalis is an uncommon musician. The 44-year-old Grammy award-winning saxophonist has continued to exercise and expand his skills as a performer, a composer and now, at the head of his Marsalis Music label, a producer for both his own projects and those of the jazz world’s most promising new artists.
www adres: www.branfordmarsalis.com
For the past 16 years, saxophonist-composer-arranger Virginia Mayhew has been an active participant in the New York jazz scene. A native of San Francisco, Virginia came to New York in 1987, where she enrolled in the New School's Jazz Performance program, and was awarded its Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship.
www adres: http://virginiamayhew.com
was born on July 7, 1930 in Eastman, Georgia, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There was much music in his family, particularly piano music. Uncle Dave Mobley played piano among other instruments, and his mother and grandmother also played keyboards (his grandmother was a church organist). Piano became Mobley's first instrument; then he picked up the tenor sax at age 16 and basically taught himself the horn.
www adres: http://www.members.tripod.com/~hardbop/mobley.html
I've been listening to Gerry Mulligan "Jeru" since I first picked up a bari over 33 years ago and I'm still finding new things in his work - nuances that I never realized were there.
www adres: www.gerrymulligan.info
Greg
Osby, saxophone
An innovative, outspoken, often controversial musician, Greg Osby has
been a progressive force in jazz for nearly 20 years. With a full command
of the language of bebop, a taste for rhythmic complexity, and a fiery
approach to his primary instrument.....
www adres: www.gregosby.com
Charles
Christopher Parker, Jr. , saxophone
Although he was born on the Kansas side of the state line, Parker was
actually raised across the Kaw River in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname
was originally "Yardbird" due to his propensity for eating fried
chicken - later this was shortened to the more poetic "Bird".
www adres: www.charlie-parker.com
Despite a remarkably colorful and difficult life, Art Pepper was quite consistent in the recording studios; virtually every recording he made is well worth getting. In the 1950s he was one of the few altoists (along with Lee Konitz and Paul Desmond) that was able to develop his own sound despite the dominant influence of Charlie Parker.
www adres: http://home.ica.net/~blooms/notes.html
Sonny
Rollins, saxophone
first learned piano, studied alto saxophone from about the age of 11,
and took up the tenor in 1946. In high school he led a group with Jackie
McLean, Kenny Drew, and Art Taylor. He rehearsed with Thelonious Monk
for several months in 1948, and from 1949 to 1954 recorded intermittently
with a number of leading bop musicians and groups, including J.J. Johnson,
Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Monk,
and the Modern Jazz Quartet.
www.adres: official
Sonny Rollins website
Wayne
Shorter, saxophone
was considered "the idea man" behind Miles Davis's legendary
60s quintet, and the tenor and soprano sax player brings this creative
input to the Hancock - Shorter quartet....
www adres: www.ejn.it/mus/shorter.htm
played alto saxophone in Tiny Bradshaw's big band in the early 1940s, then in 1945 joined Billy Eckstine's big band, which included such young bop players as Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, and Art Blakey....
www adres: http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/stitt.html
Richard
Tabnik, saxophone
Jazz Alto Saxophone. Hello! My name is Richard Tabnik. I live in New York
City and I dig Jazz Improvising! I play the Alto Saxophone My web site
contains information about.....
www adres:
www.inch.com/~rctabnik/