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Instruments key: s, Sopranino; S, Soprano; A, Alto; T, Tenor; B, Baritone; b, Bass; c, Contrabass (or tubax); sc, Subcontrabass; Indicators key: X, instrument has ...
Iain Ballamy (born 20 February 1964) is a British composer and saxophonist. [1] He is considered one of the 25 greatest jazz saxophonists of all time [2] and was featured as one of the world's all-time greats in BBC Music Magazine ' s "100 Jazz Legends". [3]
Pages in category "Classical saxophonists" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Andrew J. Allen;
All saxophone mouthpieces were made in this style until the 1940s, when the advent of big-band jazz made saxophonists experiment with different shapes of mouthpieces to get a louder and edgier sound. Between 1940 and 1960, it became common for classical saxophonists to use narrow-chamber mouthpieces, which give the instrument a brighter and ...
Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, [1] Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Nilsson, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and other prominent musicians.
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Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas, United States, on February 24, 1933, but grew up in Dallas, where he studied first the piano and then the saxophone. [1] According to one account, he got his nickname "Fathead" in school when "an outraged music instructor used it as an epithet after catching Newman playing a Sousa march from memory rather than from reading the sheet music, which rested ...
Pages in category "20th-century saxophonists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 233 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .