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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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... The following artists and bands have performed smooth jazz. Saxophonists ... 24k Music Network syndicated television and radio ...
Joshua Redman was born in Berkeley, California, to jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer and librarian Renee Shedroff. [1] He is Jewish. [2] [3] He was exposed to many kinds of music at the Center for World Music in Berkeley, where his mother studied South Indian dance.
Elliot started out as a member of the jazz-rock unit, KittyHawk, playing lyricon (a wind synthesizer) and saxophone, and recording several albums with them. He then became a member of the funk band Tower of Power, playing tenor sax for five years during the 1980s. [1] He also did a stint as a member of the Yellowjackets.
European free jazz: European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. 1960s -> Flamenco jazz: Flamenco jazz is a style mixing flamenco and jazz, typified by artists such as Paco de Lucia and Camarón de la Isla. 1960s -> Free funk: A combination of avant-garde jazz with funk music 1970s ...
“Smooth jazz” was by far the dominant market force in jazz at the end of the century, and it sidetracked the artistic lives of some musicians who might have made more interesting music but for the draw of big paydays. But the radio stations playing sax-and-synth dominated lite funk faded in the first decade of the 21st century. [6]
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.
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