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B, Baritone; b, Bass; c, Contrabass (or tubax) sc, Subcontrabass; Indicators key: X, instrument has been used by person or group; X, instrument has been used by person or group, but much less often than other X-marked instruments; C, person or group uses a C melody saxophone (either as primary instrument, or in addition to the normal tenor sax)
"Meet Mark Rivera, Billy Joel's sax man for the past 36 years". Deseret News. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Rodman, Sarah (June 21, 2014). "Five Mark Rivera tunes you probably know well". Boston Globe. Warner, Denise (January 8, 2017). "Mark Rivera Brings the '60s and the '70s to the Billboard Lounge at Barclays Center". Billboard
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 ...
John Surman at the 2017 Oslo Jazz Festival. Surman was born in Tavistock, Devon, England. [1] He initially gained recognition playing baritone saxophone in the Mike Westbrook Band in the mid-1960s, [1] and was soon heard regularly playing soprano saxophone and bass clarinet as well. [2]
[7] [8] He also plays flute and keyboards in addition to alto, soprano and baritone sax. [9] In 1950s his family moved to Garden City South where Cannata blossomed as a musician. [8] He played his first gig at the age of 13 [6] and went on to play in school bands and with local musicians, perfecting his skills as a live performer and studio ...
In 1983 he played the saxophone on George Michael's hit "Careless Whisper". [2] Michael had already hired and fired several other sax players for the song, who the BBC characterized as struggling to play all the notes with "the right amount of fluidity and still breathe," [3] Michael eventually heard what he was looking for from Gregory. [4]
He played the soprano saxophone solo on the number-one hit single "Listen to What the Man Said" by the band Wings. In 1976, he played the theme "I Still Can't Sleep" in Taxi Driver. [7] Scott also composed the soundtrack for 1980's Stir Crazy. [8] In 1982, he collaborated with Johnny Mathis on "Without Us", the theme to the 1980s sitcom Family ...
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