Word: saxophonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bloom, who will visit the campus through the Learning From Performers Series sponsored by the Office of the Arts, will join a regular rehearsal of the Harvard Jazz Band Wednesday evening. The saxophonist will also conduct a session open to other musicians later that night...
Also very impressive was the presence of alumni performers who came back to be part of a tradition started four years ago. Rex Dean '84, the founder of Jazz For Life, returned to sing, as did Paul Brusiloff '86 and the Cambridge-based, alumni-dominated vocal group Centerpiece. Saxophonist Don Braden '85-'88 interrupted his studies to tour with Wynton Marsalis and may never return to Harvard for a degree. He did, however, return to support Jazz For Life, playing both as featured soloist and as sideman...
Playing with Axelrod are guitarist Brian Silverman '85, Larisa R. Wright '87 on the bass, drummer Scott Puopolo '85, and saxophonist Warren Hill, a student at the Berklee School of Music...
...band members credit saxophonist Hill with much of the group's developing style. "A good sax is like a vitamin," Axelrod says...
When Wright first heard the Canadian saxophonist perform, she instantly decided they needed him to play for the band. "He happened to be absolutely wonderful, and we said `You gotta be in our band.' By the luck of the gods he was interested...