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Iain Ballamy (born 20 February 1964) is a British composer and saxophonist. [1] He is considered one of the 25 greatest jazz saxophonists of all time [2] and was featured as one of the world's all-time greats in BBC Music Magazine ' s "100 Jazz Legends". [3] The Guardian described him as "one of the world's distinctive saxophone voices".
Jazz, world music: Don Wise: 1957- x: X R&B, soul: Francis Wong: X X Jazz: Chris Wood: 1944-1983 X X X X Rock: Phil Woods: 1931-2015 X: X Bebop: Andrew Woolfolk: 1951-2022 X X X R&B: John Worley: 1919-1999 X Classical: Laurence Wyman: X Classical: Lester Young: 1909-1959 X Jazz: Daniel Zamir: 1981- X X Free jazz, Jewish music: John Zorn: 1953 ...
In the 1950s, sax players like tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins broke new ground in jazz, infusing their music with rhythm and blues, modal, Latin and gospel influences as part of the hard bop subgenre. In the 1950s and 1960s, free jazz pioneers such as Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler developed unusual new sounds and playing ...
The album won the 1965 Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group and Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" also won the award for Record of the Year in 1965. This was the first time a jazz album received Album of the Year.
List of other charted songs, with selected peak chart positions Year Title Chart positions Album US AC [15] US Jazz [18] 1997 "Loving You" 8 — Greatest Hits: 2006 "You're Beautiful" — 3 I'm in the Mood for Love...The Most Romantic Melodies of All Time: 2008 "Sax-O-Loco" — 1 Rhythm and Romance "Sabor a Mi" — 30 "Tango" — 8
Much of his career has been in R&B, but in the 1970s he had several successful jazz albums, with I Hear a Symphony reaching 11 on Billboard's Jazz albums list and 159 for Pop albums. David Sanborn cites Crawford as being one of his primary influences. [7] [8] Crawford is recognized by saxophonists as having a particularly unique and pleasing ...
Saxophone Colossus is the sixth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Perhaps Rollins's best-known album, it is often considered his breakthrough record. [ 4 ] It was recorded monophonically on June 22, 1956, with producer Bob Weinstock and engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the latter's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey .
The alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson recalled seeing Parker get burned by Bostic during one such jam session at Minton's. Donaldson said that Bostic "was the greatest saxophone player I ever knew. Bostic was down at Minton's and Charlie Parker came in there. They played 'Sweet Georgia Brown' or something and he gave Charlie Parker a saxophone lesson.