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Turner has mentioned both Marsh and Coltrane as influences, and has used elements of both players' styles in his music. [3] Turner's range extends into the high altissimo register. His improvised lines tend to span several octaves and contain great harmonic and rhythmic complexity.
Saxophone altissimo is generally considered to be any note that is higher than written high F ♯, which is considered the highest note in the saxophone's regular range.. Altissimo is produced by the player using various voicing techniques such as air stream, tongue, throat and embouchure variations to disturb the fundamental of a note, which results in one of the higher overtones domina
Theodore Malcolm Nash (October 31, 1922 – May 12, 2011 [1]) was a jazz musician who played saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He was a session musician in Hollywood studios. [ 2 ] His brother is trombonist Dick Nash and his nephew is saxophonist Ted Nash , [ 3 ] who is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis .
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 ...
Scheila Gonzalez in Aarhus, Denmark (2009) Scheila Gonzalez (born August 5, 1971 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Grammy winning multi-instrumentalist and music educator. [1]
Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) [1] was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz.He was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet [2] and composed the group's biggest hit, "Take Five".
A performer on both clarinet and saxophone in his younger years, “Gene” Rousseau was heard on Chicago's WGN radio in February 1950 at age 17. [2] He graduated from Chicagoland's Blue Island Community High School (later Dwight D. Eisenhower High School) in 1950, having received the school band’s top award as a graduating senior.
On the alto saxophone he uses a refaced 7* Yanagisawa mouthpiece, as well as a model made specifically for him by the brand Saxz, and a Meyer 5M. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] He used a Selmer Mark VII saxophone for most of his career, but switched to the more renowned Mark VI at some point in the 2010s [ 39 ] and currently uses a Yamaha YAS-875EX.