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David Schnitter

David Schnitter is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979. He played with Freddie Hubbard from 1979 to 1981 and also worked with Frank Foster, Charles Earland, and Groove Holmes. He recorded for Muse Records from 1976 to 1981. Schnitter has been currently performing regularly at Smalls Jazz Club and Fat Cat in Manhattan, as well as touring in Europe. He has been on faculty at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music since 1994.

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Live Review

David Schnitter at The Turning Point Cafe

Read "David Schnitter at The Turning Point Cafe" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


David Schnitter The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, New York June 2, 2008

David Schnitter ended a bracing, sixty-minute set at The Turning Point Cafe with a quote from “Auld Lang Syne." This brief digression was a jocular reminder that, for a jazz musician, “times gone by" aren't as important as the present. Though the tenor saxophonist has recently played with distinction in an Art Blakey tribute band led by fellow Blakey alumnus Valery ...

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Dave Schnitter: Sketch

Read "Dave Schnitter: Sketch" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Dave Schnitter Sketch Sunnyside Records 2004

Not only did David Schnitter have the longest tenure of any tenor saxophonist in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers but he was always present on the most exciting and memorable of Bu's sets that I was privileged to catch. His return to music and recording after a sabbatical of over 20 years is at once cheering and disturbing. There may have been more schooled and disciplined players preceding and ...

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Album Review

Dave Schnitter and Edgar van Asselt: Penpals

Read "Penpals" reviewed by Samuel Chell


In the late 1970's the Newport Jazz Festival programmed a Carnegie Hall concert featuring the groups of both Art Blakey and Horace Silver along with some all-star alumni guests. The impression of that concert that lingers with me to this day is the passionate and fiery if not show-stopping performance of Blakey's tenor man, David Schnitter. Had the title “Little Giant" not already been bestowed upon Johnny Griffin to distinguish him from “long, tall" Dexter Gordon, it might just as ...

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Profile

Saxophonist Dave Schnitter

Read "Saxophonist Dave Schnitter" reviewed by Russ Musto


David Schnitter is the jazz world's forgotten messenger, a marvelous musician who just happened to be in the right place right before the right time. The 55 year old tenor saxophonist has yet to receive the recognition he deserves as a central figure in the reorganization and resurgence Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers underwent during the '70s, paving the way for the astonishing ascendancy into popular culture the venerable institution later experienced with the introduction of Wynton Marsalis into the band. ...

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Dave Schnitter Quintet @ 46 Lounge Wed Jan 23rd All Gigs 7:30 - 10:30 No Cover, No Minimum

Dave Schnitter Quintet @ 46 Lounge Wed Jan 23rd All Gigs 7:30 - 10:30 No Cover, No Minimum

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The Spirit of Things

CIMP Records
2008

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Sketch

Sunnyside Records
2004

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Penpals

Munich Records
2003

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Glowing

Cristal Records
1981

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Thundering

Cristal Records
1979

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Goliath

Cristal Records
1978

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Freeway

From: The David Schnitter Quintet: ...
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