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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 ...
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 ".
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 ...
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 ...
Jazz, free jazz: Charles Gayle: 1939- X: X X: Free jazz: Stan Getz: 1927-1991 X Jazz: John Gilmore: 1931-1995 X X: Jazz: Vince Giordano: 1952- X Jazz: Jimmy Giuffre: 1921-2008 X Jazz: Vinny Golia: 1946- X X X X X X X Jazz: Benny Golson: 1929- X Jazz to Paul Gonsalves: 1920-1974 X Jazz: Kadri Gopalnath: 1950-2019 X Carnatic: Bob Gordon: 1928 ...
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 ]
He started playing with local dance bands while still at school. After a time working in the shipyards, Lamont moved to London to play with Kenny Graham's Afro Cubists and (switching to tenor saxophone) with the Johnny Keating band in 1957. In 1958 he toured the US with Vic Lewis. During the 1960s he became a member of the Johnny Scott Quintet. [2]
Kansas City Jazz in the 1930s as exemplified by tenor saxophonist Lester Young marked the transition from big bands to the bebop influence of the 1940s. These divergences from the jazz mainstream of the time initially met with a divided, sometimes hostile response among fans and fellow musicians, especially established swing players, who ...