Word: saxophonist
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...saxophone sonata, saxophonist Ian Carroll displayed comfort with the piece's classical and jazz elements. It is rare to hear the sax in a classical setting, and Carroll showed that the instrument is capable of much more than one might expect...
DIED. JUNIOR WALKER, 53, saxophonist; of cancer; in Battle Creek, Michigan. As the front man for the Motown hitmakers, Junior Walker and the All Stars, Walker wielded a saxophone drenched in the blues. His high-wire riffs propelled such sixties standards as How Sweet It Is (to be Loved By You), Come See About Me, and These Eyes...
...hear is his combination of ludicrous technical skills with a style that is thoroughly grounded in a traditional jazz feel. On "Ornithology," a challenging Charlie Parker tune. McBride played faster, louder, cleaner and more lyrically than Redman. It is not normal for a bass-player to manhandle a saxophonist playing bebop, but McBride is the Bird of the Bass...
...Saxophonist Mark C. Simon '99 and trumpet player Dionne A. Fraser '99 received the 1995 Malcolm Holmes Band Scholarships at the Dartmouth Football Concert October...
...drums and numerous other instruments, chose a year of jazz study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and then apprenticed himself to a series of cold-water flats and smoky New York City jazz clubs. He got a break in the mid-1960s by sitting in with saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk; that was followed by gigs with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis and eventually a solo career, encouraged by German record producer Manfred Eicher, who recorded the young Jarrett on the fledgling ECM label in 1971, and has produced his records ever since...