Word: saxophonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial pressures can be formidable for anyone, of course. Free-lance Saxophonist Art Bressler, who has worked a number of weddings in the New York City area, remembers best the one where the bride's father reached into his pocket to pay the bill and came up empty. Later, watching a videotape of their reception, the newlyweds discovered what had happened: they could see the bridegroom's father reaching into the bride's father's pocket and lifting his roll of cash. The debts eventually got paid but, Bressler reports, the marriage lasted only a month...
...think you're good enough." Fortified by those words, McNair went on to earn honors galore. Among them: being named a Presidential Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, and a doctorate in physics from M.I.T., where he helped develop specialized lasers. Along the way he acquired impressive skills as a saxophonist and fifth-degree black-belt karate instructor...
Tonight's concert will feature tenor saxophonist Donald Braden '86, who has played professionally in New York Dean '84, the event's organizer. Braden will be joined by at least ten other jazz vocalists, pianists, and guitarists...
...SAXOPHONIST Paquito D'Rivera, Cuba's most recent gift to American music, is Latin jazz's newest talent as well as the most recent example of the exchange between Cuban and American music...
...Rivera, who played alto say and flute, was, along with keyboardist/bandleader Jesus "Chucho" Valdes and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, the heart and soul of the group. A. fiery, technically proficient saxophonist, D'Rivera raised the eyebrows of fans, critics and record company executives everywhere Irakere toured...