Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Elvira Louise Redd (September 20, 1928 – February 6, 2022) was an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator. She was active from the early 1950s and was known primarily for playing in the blues style.
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 ...
Steve White (born Stephen Gaylord Goorabian, sometimes spelled "Gailord"; November 20, 1925 – December 21, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist based in Los Angeles who recorded in the 1950s for Nocturne, Pacific Jazz, and Atlantic. He primarily played tenor saxophone, but he also played baritone and clarinet.
David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist.He worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. [1]
He produced music in the 1950s and 1960s for Tops, Uni and Liberty; among his credits were singles by Gary Lewis & the Playboys. In 1961, Pell switched to alto saxophone and clarinet for a tribute album to John Kirby , who led a small group in the 1930s and 1940s.
Steve Lacy (born Steven Norman Lackritz; July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. [1] Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career.
Through the end of the 1950s Poindexter played extensively both as a leader and as a sideman, recording with Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, T-Bone Walker, and Jimmy Witherspoon. In the early 1960s, Poindexter began playing the soprano sax as well. [1] He recorded with Eric Dolphy and Dexter Gordon on a session for Epic Records around 1962.
Louis Thomas Jordan [a] (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) [1] was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as " the King of the Jukebox ", he earned his highest profile towards the end of the swing era.