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Performers identified primarily with jazz saxophone.
The great alto saxophonist was born Julian Edwin Adderley in 1928 in Tampa, Florida. He had a career as a high school band director when a visit to New York in 1955 lead to his playing jazz full-time. He joined Miles Davis in 1957 and two years later formed the Adderley Quintet with his younger brother Nat, a cornetist. The group is considered one of the pioneers of hard bop and also crossed over to soul jazz. They produced dozens of albums before Adderley died suddenly in 1975.
Grammy-nominated avant-garde saxophonist from the San Francisco Bay area, associated with the Hieroglypics Ensemble.
Free jazz saxophonist (1936-1970).
Pioneer of Jazz music (1897-1959), considered an equal of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver in the history of Jazz. First known for his clarinet playing, he later took up the soprano sax. The New Orleans native emigrated to France in the 1950s.
Saxophonist Stan Getz was born in Philadelphia on Feb. 2, 1927, and died on June 6, 1991. Known for lyrical melododic riffs, his 1962 album with guitarist Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba, with the hit tune by Antonio Carlos Jobim, "Desafinado," and Getz/Gilberto, with vocals sung by Astrud Gilberto, "The Girl From Ipanema," made bossa nova a permanent part of the jazz repertoire.
Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was born February 27, 1923. and began his career in 1940 playing with the Lionel Hampton band. He struggled with drug addiction, and left the States for Europe in 1962, where he remained for 15 years where he recorded the Hard Bop classic "Our Man in Paris". He returned to the States in 1976 and in 1986 he starred in the film "Round Midnight" and received an Academy Award nomination. He died on April 25, 1990.
Tenor saxophonist from Providence, Rhode Island, a mainstay of Concord Records and leader of a widely recorded swing jazz quintet. Conservative sound and phrasing owes more to Ben Webster than to Dexter Gordon or Stan Getz. Acclaimed by Flip Phillips.
Jean-Baptiste "Illinois" Jacquet (1922-2004) was a Jazz saxophonist who was a member of the big bands of Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, and Count Basie; before starting his first band 1n 1946.He first made his name with his tenor saxophone solo on "Flying Home" with Hampton, recorded when he was 19. In the 1980s and 90s, he become artist-in-residence at Harvard University and led his own big band.
Charismatic performer and multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk was born in Columbus, Ohio on Aug. 8, 1936. Blinded shortly after he was born, Kirk went on to learn to play more than 40 instruments, including the tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, nose flute and clarinet. Kirk suffered a stroke in 1975 yet continued to perform and tour despite being limited to playing with one hand. He died on Dec. 5, 1977, after a performance in Bloomington, Ind.
Jazz saxophonist associated with the "cool jazz" movement.
Mulligan (1927-1996) is probably the best known and most highly regarded Jazz baritone saxophone player.
Born Joseph Edward Phillips in Brooklyn, New York in 1915, enjoyed a distinguished career as one of the stars of American jazz saxophone. Fame peaked with Jazz at the Philharmonic tours of the 1940s and 50s but came back strong with Concord Records and other specialtiy labels in the 1970s and 80s.
Jazz saxophonist. Rollins started playing in the bebop era with the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, and continues to perform and record.
Saxophonist, big band leader, and authority on Benny Goodman.
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1937, he grew up in Philadelphia. He started playing tenor saxophone and piano in the early 1960's. He currently teaches music history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shepp has collaborated with Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef, and other jazz greats.
Saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator based at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
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