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Aaron Heick
Aaron Heick is a saxophonist and woodwind player, based in New York City, who has worked with everyone under the sun, . from Chaka Khan to Barbra Streisand, and from Sting to Frank Sinatra.You might also know him from his work as a...
Alan Lechusza
Alan Lechusza is quickly gaining ground as one of the new woodwind players/improvisers to watch. His versatility on all the woodwind instruments (western and non-western aero phones) both as an improviser and as a studio musician has led...Albert Hamme
Al Hamme is a woodwind artist, clinician, conductor, arranger and composer. He has recorded with Slam Stewart, Phil Woods, Tom Harrell, Peter Appleyard, Richard Wyans, Bucky Pizzarelli, Tony Marino, Mike Holober, Sherrie Maricle, Ann...
Alex Coke
Alex Coke, born in Dallas, Texas, an original member of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, has performed with Tina Marsh in various formations for 22 years. For ten years he played and recorded with the internationally renowned...
Alfred Harth
Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, musician and composer who is mixing the genres in a polystylistic manner. As a person with synesthesia he uses numerology inspired by mystical sources as well as by Alban Berg...
Allan Praskin
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Anderson Twins
Identical twin brothers Peter & William Anderson recently both received their B.M. & Masters degrees from Juilliard, and performed together at top venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Blue Note, Birdland, the Village Vanguard, the David...
Anthony Braxton
To his list of achievements and awards, Anthony Braxton may now add the 1994 MacArthur Fellowship: the so-called "genius" grant of (in his case) $300,000, awarded to individuals nominated for outstanding and original contributions to their...
Arne Domnerus
Sven Arne Domnerus was a Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist, popularly nicknamed Dompan. He was best known for his recordings with visiting American players such as jazz artists such as James Moody, Art Farmer and Clifford...
Ben Kono
Since moving to New York City in 1999, woodwind performer and saxophonist Ben Kono has been attracting attention as a singular emerging voice in cutting-edge groups like Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the John Hollenbeck Large...
Charlie Mariano
Charlie Mariano is an American jazz alto saxophonist. He played with one of the Stan Kenton big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi (his then wife), Charles Mingus, Eberhard Weber, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and numerous other notable...Charlie Munro
Charlie Munro was jazz reedist and flautist born in New Zealand but based chiefly out of Australia. Munro moved to Sydney when he was 21, and played in the bands of Myer Norman and Wally Parks in addition to work as a sideman on various...
Chris Greco
Multi-instrumentalist Chris Greco free lanced, recorded, explored small, medium, and large group formats and was a significant contributor to the jazz culture of Los Angeles during the 1980's and the 1990's. His jazz projects from this...
Chris Potter
Born in Chicago on New Year’s Day 1971 and moving to Columbia, South Carolina as an infant, the prodigious youngster began fooling around on guitar and piano at the age of three. He took up the alto sax at the age of ten and...
Chris Reza
Whether it's jazz, classical, musical theatre, big band, blues, rock, funk or Latin, Chris Reza is comfortable with any musical style or form. A woodwind specialist, composer and educator from the Dallas area, Chris plays fifteen different...
Christof Knoche
Saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and composer Christof Knoche was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1967. At about 16, he started playing the saxophone. Following his graduation from high school and two years of obligatory German civil service,...
Christopher White
About Dr. Christopher K White (BMI) - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, composer. Born in Northern California, Christopher White grew up in small town America where he found musical success early, playing his first professional...
Colin Stetson
Woodwind player Colin Stetson can play powerfully while circularly breathing for long periods, can draw multiphonics out of a sax with great skill, and can command an audience's attention with his focus and melodic improvisations. Stetson...Craig Buhler
Among Craig Buhler’s 5 self-produced recordings are a swing dance CD, a live jazz CD, and his latest, an adaptation of jazz for youth. He has been a professional jazz, rock, & dance musician for 20 years, having participated in over 25...David Burnett
Versed in sight reading and improvisation, David Burnett keeps a full woodwind studio and performs regularly in San Diego and surrounding areas. Venues David Burnett has performed at include The House of Blues, Carnegie Hall, and various...Dawan Muhammad
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Donald Denzin
The former Chief Human Resources Officer for two NYSE-traded companies, Don Denzin is also a seasoned jazz reed player. Throughout his 25+ year corporate career, he has successfully adapted the rubrics of jazz improvisation to workplace...
Eero Koivistoinen
Eero Koivistoinen (born January 13, 1946), one of the all-time greats in Finnish jazz and saxophone, arrived in the Finnish jazz scene in the mid-60s. Ever since, he has been one of the most distinguished and trusted jazz musicians in...Enrique Fernandez
Enrique Fernandez ...Eric Daniel
Born in Washington, D.C., USA on May 24th, 1952 Began musical studies age 9 (clarinet). Began performing publicly at age 12.Joined American Federation of Musicians at age 16 in Boston, MA, USA. Advanced musical studies at New England...
Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.
Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto players to rise to prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass...
Eric Kloss
Eric Kloss is a world renowned alto and tenor saxophonist, a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, composer, clinician, educator, and television personality. Blind from birth music became his vision. A true child prodigy he performed...
Ernie Watts
Two-time Grammy Award winner Ernie Watts is one of the most versatile and prolific saxophone players on the music scene. In a diverse career that has spanned more than thirty years, he has been featured on more than 500 recordings...Frank Vacin
Frank Vacin has been living and working in New York City since 1991. He presently lives with his family in Manhattan . A baritone saxophonist and woodwind doubler Frank also plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, contra alto, bass,...
Fredrik Lundin
Since arriving on the Danish Jazz scene in 1981 this elegant and explosive musician has been searching relentlessly into the realms of experimental and contemporary music. A truly original and virtuoso voice, performing in bands such as...
Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson is considered by many to be one of the most multi-talented musicians in the studios today. Known for being an incredibly versatile composer in a variety of genres for both stage and screen, Anderson combines his deep...
Gary Foster
An excellent, cool-toned straight-ahead altoist influenced by Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, Gary Foster's years in the studios have often been underrated despite his talents. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 and soon...George Gosieski
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Gunter Hampel
Louis Armstrong came streaming from the radio of a US army truck (1945) in the backyard of Gunter Hampel's home in Germany, and young Gunter, already immersed in European classical music, became intrigued with this new sound. A...Harvey Wainapel
Saxophonist/clarinetist Harvey Wainapel (pronounced “wine-apple”) has performed with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, Joe Henderson, and Johnny Coles. Besides working with these and numerous other...
Henry Threadgill
Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family. He soon settled primarily upon the alto saxophone and the...Hepa Halme
Hepa Halme is a composer and woodwind player, who has worked professionally for 30 years in the Helsinki area. His artistic range covers everything from punk rock to performance and beyond...
Ira Sullivan
Sullivan is that rare thing, a true multi-instrumentalist, capable of improvising statements of worth on all his instruments. He was taught trumpet by his father, saxophone by his mother and played both in 50s Chicago with such seminal...
James Moody
For over six decades, saxophone master James Moody has serenaded lovers with his signature song Moody's Mood for Love an improvisation on the chord progressions of I'm in the Mood for Love. Born in Savannah, Georgia on March 26, 1925,...
Jan Klare
Jan Klare (sax, fl, cl, comp) born 1961. Lived in Düsseldorf from 1979 to 1987. WDR- production with folk-jazzgroup Gandalin (1985 winner of »WDR- Stadtmusik«). moved to London in 1987, where he worked with Harry Beckett, Ricardo Santos...Jean-Francois Bonnel
Jean-François Bonnel , né le 5 juin 1959 à Gien Loiret Instruments : clarinette, saxophones, cornet à pistons, guitare, piano... Etudie le piano puis la clarinette au conservatoire de Montpellier puis Aix en Provence. Médaille d'or de...
Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson's ability to double on a number of instruments in the reed/woodwind family kept him in steady employment for half a century. A first-call reed player in New York and Hollywood, Richardson's work on saxophones and...Jesper Nehammer
CV: Dentist, Dental Technician, Acupuncturist, Saxophonist, Sound Engineer, Flash Programmer. --- Graduated from Aurehøj Gymnasium, Music Line 1965 Graduated from Danish Dental College 1975 Dentist, Own Office 1980-1997 General...
Joe Higham
Tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, B flat clarinet After studying sculpture at the Brighton College of Art & Design he went to the CAT in Newcastle (now the Newcastle University) where he graduated in Light Music (nowadays called jazz)....
Joe McPhee
Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and...Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre
Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre is a multiple reed specialist who has appeared throughout the world in festivals and clubs, at colleges and universities, and on television and radio. His musical associations have included performers such as...Karlheinz Miklin
1983-2000 dean of the Jazz department at the Music University Graz. Associate Jazz Artist at the Royal Academy London. Chairman of the IASJ - International Association of Schools of Jazz. Vice-chairman Advisory Board of the EYJO -...Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson is a freelance woodwind player in the Philadelphia area. He can be seen in many venues throughout the region. With over twenty years of experience, he performs regularly on saxophone, clarinet, and flute. Ken has performed...Klaus Lessmann
Klaus Lessmann (Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor) Originally from Burghausen (Germany), he studied classical music and jazz at the Musikhochschule Graz (Austria) and has lived since 1986 near Siena in Italy. He...
Larry Ankrum
Larry Ankrum is an American jazz musician and composer. He plays tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, flute, alto flute, piccolo, and clarinet. He grew up in a musical family in Minnesota and began studying music at the age of 8. He...
Liudas Mockūnas
Liudas Mockunas Lithuanian reed player (born in 1976) during the last years has become an important figure on Lithuanian jazz scene, is a representative of a young Lithuanian jazz generation, he is a mature and experienced musician...
Louis Sclavis
Louis Sclavis (b. Lyon, France, February 2, 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz. His music shows great creativity and a...
Marco Colonna
I usually play a lot of reeds,from the Eb flat piccolo clarinet to the big contrabass clarinet passing from nino sax and my love bass clarinet.I play free improvisation around the e-music ,but also working all around the world making tour...
Marty Ehrlich
Marty Ehrlich is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, critically acclaimed as both composer and player. Equally fluent on clarinet, saxophone, and flutes, Ehrlich has been hailed as “one of the most formidable...
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson was born 1964 in Umeå, is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He first came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe in 1986 and...Matt Darria
Matt Darriau was named one of the most influental jazz musicians of the last fifteen years by Jazziz Magazine for bringing balkan rhythms and melodies into jazz. Besides being a leading innovator in the "Jewish Alternative Movement" (with...
Michael Art Moss
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Michael Cooke
The multi-instrumentalist Michael Cooke is a composer of Jazz and Classical music. This two time Emmy and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner plays a variety of instruments, you will hear him play soprano, alto & tenor sax, flute, soprano &...Michael McKeon
Introducing the LET'S DANCE Big Band. The Bands History The Big Band was originally formed in 1981 and played a number of "gigs", weddings, balls, dinner dances and concerts. After a few years we decided to form an Octet from the band as...Mikole E. Kaar
Roger Burns "Jazz Memories" WUMR fm-91.7 - Memphis Mikole Kaar - WOW, This musician really got my attention. It's sad that we don't have more jazz on bassoon. That instrument has such a unique sound that captures your ear right away and...
Miro Kadoic
Miro Kadoić was born in Zagreb. He graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Music in 1986. He received several awards and prizes at various classical music competitions (i.e. First Federal Prize in the Clarinet Category in 1980; etc.) as well...
Nick Paul
Nick Paul was born and bred in London. He was very active during the 60s, 70s and 80s in the south of England and also in Europe playing New Orleans Jazz. Paul played with many bands including The Barry Martin Ragtime Band, Malc...Ofer Shapiro
Ofer Shapiro is a Tel-Aviv based jazz musician/composer and woodwind performer. He leads both a jazz quartet and an 8-piece ensemble and has been shaping up in recent years into a unique and original voice in contemporary Israeli jazz....
Olivia Bignardi
Since 1990, Olivia Bignardi has worked with Bologna Laboratory for Music and Image, Fastilio, Roncati Banda, Eva Kant, the label Erosha, the Popular School of Music Ivan Illich. In recent years she has collaborated with the...
Opelton Parker
Plays woodwind instruments most know for work on Soprano & Tenor Sax. Loves Jazz and gospel.
Paul Cutlan
Welome to my MySpace page. My main interest is in being involved in the original music projects of creative musicians, especially involving improvisation. I started out as freelancing with classical orchestras as a clarinet player. These...
Paul Lieberman
Early in saxophone and flute player Paul Lieberman’s career during a session at Mickey Hart’s, Gil Evans commented to Airto “everything he plays sounds right”-and David Sanborn responded to a NY performance with a surprise...Peter A. Schmid
Musically active for over twenty years in various groups blurring the boundaries between jazz, improvised music and modern classic music. In (almost) every formation, own compositions and concepts with plenty of room for structured or...
Peter Brotzmann
Born Remscheid, Germany on 6 March 1941; soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones, a-clarinet, e-flat clarinet; bass clarinet, tarogato. Peter Brötzmann's early interest was in painting and he attended the art academy in...Phil Bywater
Hello. I'm a saxophone player/composer interested in creative music from all over, originally inspired by musicians like Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Pharoah Sanders and their ability to find incredible music just about...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added "Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely...Rob Hall
Biography Rob currently plays sopranino, soprano, alto and tenor saxes plus clarinet. After gaining a degree and diplomas at Manchester University and the Royal Northern College of Music, Rob Hall won a scholarship (worth half fees) to...
Roscoe Mitchell
One of the top saxophonists to come out of Chicago's AACM movement of the mid-'60s, Roscoe Mitchell is a particularly strong and consistently adventurous improviser long associated with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. After getting out of the...
Rose Rutledge
Rose Rutledge is a New York based multi-instrumentalist, specializing in performance on flute, oboe, clarinet, piccolo, alto, tenor, soprano, C melody and baritone saxophones. Playing genres such as jazz, classical, commercial,...
Rufus Harley
Rufus Harley, “the world’s first jazz bagpiper”, was born on May 20, 1936 near Raleigh, N.C. but grew up in a working class neighborhood in Philadelphia where his family moved when he was 2 years of age. He started playing the C...
Sahib Shihab
Besides being one of the first jazz musicians to convert to Islam and change his name (1947), Sahib Shihab was also one of the earliest boppers to use the flute. But he was also a fluent soloist on the alto, as well as the baritone sax,...
Scott Robinson
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Sha
'Moon and its clouds always guiding me through a life of lives...' (lyrics from 012) 'He wails in on alto sax, like a banshee trying to charm a cobra.' Dan McClenaghan at allaboutjazz.com about Sha. "R'n'B', Minimalfunk,...
Stefan Wistrand
Stefan Wistrand got hooked on jazz in the early 70's and at the same time took up playing the saxophone. At first involved in the jazz rock movement of the decade he soon encountered free jazz through the duo he formed in the mid 70's...Steve Bagnell
Steve Bagnell plays the whole family of saxophones from soprano to bass, alto and bass clarinet, and a large collection of exotic percussion. He has been a frequent artist in residence with The Hugh Fraser International Jazz...
Steve Norton
Boston-based saxophonist Steve Norton has been performing and recording for over 30 years, with a bunch of folks to whom he is deeply and forever in debt. His recent work has taken a turn toward more sound-based concerns and investigations...
Steve Peckman
Steve Peckman is one of the co-founders of Monkeyworks, and at some point, was appointed "The Colonel" by Smit. An eager student of the world & its music, Steve has never been known to turn down an opportunity to push the musical envelope...
Steven Lugerner
A Bay Area transplant to the NYC scene, multi-reedist Steven Lugerner maintains an active bi-costal performance schedule - as both a leader and sidemen. Since his relocation to New York City, Lugerner has fostered contacts, study...
Thomas Borgmann
Borgmann began his career in the early 1980s, working mainly with the Berlin Art Ensemble around Nick Steinhaus (participating in the 1981 Tour Southamerica for the Goethe-Institut, and the 1982 Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen). He went on...
Todd DelGiudice
Todd DelGiudice grew up in south Florida where he studied clarinet with Richard Hancock of the Florida Philharmonic and saxophone with Professor Gary Keller of the University of Miami. Todd is a graduate of the University of Miami, where...
Tom Jones
I have performed with the following ensembles in the past 36 years: The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Aretha Franklin, Peabo Bryson, Al Green, Bob Hope, Hal Linden, Jack Jones, Jr., Pattie Page,Frankie Vallie, The Linen...
Victor Goines
Victor Goines has played the clarinet since the age of eight and continued his studies with Carl Blouin, Sr., who introduced him to the saxophone at St. Augustine High School. In 1980, he entered Loyola University in New Orleans where he...
Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia is a composer who fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. As a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan...
Vlady Bystrov
The unashamedly Romantic and Consummate Artist is a Woodwind Player and Experienced Educator, Composer and Innovator. All with an intended deep sincerity, conviction, energy and a passionate humanity. He always strives for having "a...
Yuriy Yaremchuk
“Music embraces the whole spectrum of human emotions. We represent the music of certain states, of captured and organized chance incidents, of interplay of forms and structures; music without limits”.Yuriy...
