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Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 20th century, influenced by both movements of musicians that became the subgenres and by particularly influential sax players who helped reshape ...
Jazz. Dick Stabile: 1909-1980 X Swing: Hal Stein: 1928-2008 X X Jazz: Herbie Steward: 1926-2003 X: X Jazz: Sonny Stitt: 1924-1982 X X X: Bebop: Vernon Story: 1922-2007 X Bebop: Ira Sullivan: 1931-2020 X X X Jazz: Ed Summerlin: 1928-2006 X Jazz: John Surman: 1944- X X Jazz: Lew Tabackin: 1940- X Jazz: Richard Tabnik: 1952- X Jazz: Buddy Tate ...
Arthur Murray Blythe (July 5, 1940 – March 27, 2017) [1] was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was described by critic Chris Kelsey as displaying "one of the most easily recognizable alto sax sounds in jazz, big and round, with a fast, wide vibrato and an aggressive, precise manner of phrasing" and furthermore as straddling the avant garde and traditionalist jazz, often with ...
Wilton Lewis Felder (August 31, 1940 – September 27, 2015) was an American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5 's hits " I Want You Back " and " ABC " and on Marvin Gaye 's " Let's Get It On ".
Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane's groups in the mid-1960s ...
Barney Bigard (1906–1980) Don Burrows (1928–2020) Don Byron (born 1958) Evan Christopher (born 1969) Anat Cohen (born 1975) Eddie Daniels (born 1941) Kenny Davern (1935–2006) Buddy DeFranco (1923–2014) Johnny Dodds (1892–1940) Irving Fazola (1912–1949) Pete Fountain (1930–2016) Victor Goines (born 1961) Benny Goodman (1909–1986 ...
In 1983 he played the saxophone on George Michael's hit "Careless Whisper". [2] Michael had already hired and fired several other sax players for the song, who the BBC characterized as struggling to play all the notes with "the right amount of fluidity and still breathe," [3] Michael eventually heard what he was looking for from Gregory. [4]
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.