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Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.
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 ...
Numerous reviews of the band's recent performances highlight her saxophone play on many of Hay's and Men at Work's signature hit songs. [3] Gonzalez also performed on the Zappa Plays Zappa tour with Dweezil Zappa, beginning with its 2006 inception. She received praise in the media for her instrumental performance and skill during those tours.
Pages in category "Women jazz saxophonists" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Melissa Aldana;
Elvira Louise Redd (September 20, 1928 – February 6, 2022) was an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator. She was active from the early 1950s and was known primarily for playing in the blues style.
Dulfer was also the featured saxophonist on Van Morrison's A Night in San Francisco, an album in 1993, [5] and performed with Alan Parsons and his band at the World Liberty Concert in 1995. Dulfer collaborated with her father Hans Dulfer on the duet album Dulfer Dulfer in 2001. [5] She joined Prince's band in 2004 for his Musicology Live ...
One of the most memorable, if infamous and incongruous, moments in Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys is that crazy concert scene, when a hulking, shirtless, and most ...
The album also earned Williams a nomination for the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards and the title of "Best Female Contemporary Jazz Artist" in 1996. Her subsequent recordings include Eight Days of Ecstasy (1998), Evolution (2002) (on which Williams performed vocals and keyboards, along with alto and soprano saxophone), The Perfect Love (2003 ...