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Solo de concert No. 4, Opus 84 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (1862)—Jean-Baptiste Singelée; Solo de concert No. 6, Opus 92 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (1863)—Jean-Baptiste Singelée; Premier Solo andante et bolero for tenor saxophone and piano (1866)—Jules Demersseman; Brasiliana No. 7 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (1956)—Radamés ...
Despite being a common grouping in jazz, saxophone, piano and percussion was an extremely rare grouping in classical music until the end of the 20th century, when Trio Accanto started commissioning works to build a repertoire for themselves.
F, person or group uses an F Mezzo-soprano saxophone in addition to the E♭ alto sax. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The tenor saxophone became best known to the general public through its frequent use in jazz music. It was the pioneering genius of Coleman Hawkins in the 1930s that lifted the tenor saxophone from its traditional role of adding weight to the ensemble and established it as a highly effective melody instrument in its own right. Many innovative ...
Evan Parker, Buffalo, New York . Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) [1] is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation.
Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra, L.98, also known as Rhapsodie mauresque or Rhapsodie orientale, is a piece for alto saxophone and accompaniment by Claude Debussy. Completed in solo and piano form in 1911, the piece is most well known through its 1919 orchestration of the accompaniment by Jean Roger-Ducasse .
The genre of solo saxophone has a rich, but largely unmapped history in contemporary music, particularly jazz. [1] Many, but not all, musicians who play and record solo saxophone use extended techniques, a vocabulary of the saxophone beyond its normal range.
Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas, United States, on February 24, 1933, but grew up in Dallas, where he studied first the piano and then the saxophone. [1] According to one account, he got his nickname "Fathead" in school when "an outraged music instructor used it as an epithet after catching Newman playing a Sousa march from memory rather than from reading the sheet music, which rested ...