How To Use Saxophonist In A Sentence

  • The jazz pianist and saxophonist lead the band in performances of new compositions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Trible himself is a jazz singer little-known outside a small circle of initiates, although his career has included work with the likes of vibist Bobby Hutcherson and saxophonists Pharaoh Sanders and Charles Lloyd.
  • - Alto saxophonist "Sweet Poppa" Lou Donaldson, known as a bebopper, performs his signature combination of bebop and funky soul that only his particular career path could have produced. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • It's still rock 'n' roll," Lacombe says, but will include special guests such as accordionist Cory Pesaturo and possibly former Morphine saxophonist Dana Colley. Projo.com Projo Local News
  • It's a shame that, unlike Strauss, he didn't accept Durham University's offer, but he is still a former St Paul's Cathedral chorister, saxophonist, pianist and now part-time lamber (at the farm of his girlfriend's family). Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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  • Bands of that era also featured great pianists, bassists, trumpeters, flautists, violinists, and occasional saxophonists.
  • The textbook line is that contemporary European jazzers found their own identity apart from the American motherlode in a severe "free" atonalism (saxophonist Evan Parker, guitarist Derek Bailey), and in a lyrical if sometimes chilly meld of classical tones and (white people's) folk motifs (a lot of what you hear on the influential German label, ECM). Jazzers Solal, Gustavsen Shine In Age of Really Good Pianists
  • He hit the road as a tenor saxophonist and clarinettist with the Henry Jerome Swing Band.
  • The saxophonist and bandleader tours a strong line-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • If I were assembling an all-star touring band called "The Monsters of Jazz," the first guy I'd call would be James Carter: At 42, the saxophonist has chops, technique, concepts and energy enough to justify several definitions of the term "monstrous. Classic Keys, Vital Organs
  • His September appearances with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell have been overtaken this year by his "New Trio": French saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh sports a comparatively light, airy sound that suggests a pan-global, postmodern Lester Young ; guitarist Ben Monder occasionally creates Frisell-ian soundscapes, but also foregoes the electronics in favor of more traditional harmonic support. The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones
  • I attribute the successes of the show to the bassist and the saxophonist, and the failures to the two goons behind the laptops.
  • He soon began working with saxophonists Henry Threadgill and Steve Coleman, whose brands of jazz are distinctly challenging and worldly, and with pianist Eddie Palmieri, whose distillation of Afro-Cuban dance music is as bold as it gets. A Propulsive Force for Jazz
  • The tenor saxophonist wore his baseball hat backwards as he pirouetted and moonwalked across the front of the stage.
  • Bands of that era also featured great pianists, bassists, trumpeters, flautists, violinists, and occasional saxophonists.
  • Armstrong's scat singing also influenced the singing technique of bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie, who first began recording bebop in 1944 with saxophonist Charlie Parker.
  • Saxophonist Joshua Redman has written, The magic of the jazz experience is in its irreplaceability. Javier Vasquez - Jazzamoart
  • Saxophonist Lovano in particular takes it as an opportunity for some startlingly off-centre improvising.
  • If some music is uncategorizable, the music of saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson inspires deep thinkers to exhaust their thesauri dreaming up all kinds of categories: postmodern, eclectic, psychedelic jazz, avant-garde, punk jazz, gonzo jazz all right, I made up that one; he also played with the Lounge Lizards, purveyors of "fake jazz. Refining Classic Sounds
  • Despite the occasional lapse, this was a fine performance by the young saxophonist.
  • The saxophonist doubled the drum in the band.
  • In the early 1960s, the lyrical tenor saxophonist Stan Getz topped the charts with recordings of music by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
  • Eric, at the time a budding saxophonist, press ganged Melanie into service as a singer in his band Adventure.
  • He began his musical career as a jazz saxophonist, and committed himself to studying the be-bop greats.
  • Throughout, the saxophonist eschews the obvious, opting for restraint or curiously oblique phrases rather than motivic development.
  • Oh spirits, we are kindred in this dirty, old, beautiful, alive, dead city with the bridge yet I am a conspicuous, lamenting conventioneer tourist, part-time poet, part-time saxophonist, who chose the path more traveled. Al degenova | song for my son | charlie rossiter | the ex « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • The saxophonist had his own booth on the side of the control room.
  • The American saxophonist performs standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Terrasson and Parker first met while playing on a 1992 album by saxophonist Jesse Davis.
  • The saxophonist doubled the drum in the band.
  • Typically known for his tenor playing, the saxophonist started the set with his public debut on the small sopranino saxophone, which looks like a shorter version of the soprano saxophone. Spinner
  • The saxophonist doubled drum in the band.
  • We'll get multidisc takes on Paul Simon's career and Elvis Presley's '60s output, as well as a package devoted to saxophonist Ornette Coleman, long one of jazz's more astonishing loose cannons. This Fall's A Ball
  • The saxophonist plays with a churning, agitated energy whose tone is abrasive and rough-hewn.
  • Saxophonist Stanley Turrentine often switched styles during his career, sometimes losing a few fans in the process.
  • Saxophonist Dave Koz is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his recording debut by doing what he does best, making music.
  • By the time I concluded that yes, I did indeed need a piece of carrot cake and successfully bounced a rolled-up napkin off my waitron's neck, a saxophonist appeared.
  • (Soundbite of music) WAS: In the beginning, though, it was Miles the bebopper who burst on the scene, stringing rat-a-tat fusillades over furious tempos, a style he picked up from saxophonist and bandmate Charlie Parker. Unpack This: 70 CDs Of Miles Davis
  • Its three percussionists play on elements of a miniature trap set, divided among them and slung around their necks, and the rest of the group - three saxophonists, pairs of trumpeters and trombonists, a sousaphonist and a piccolo player - play from miniature scores mounted as Rube Goldberg-like extensions of their clothing and instruments. NYT > Home Page
  • Their concert, which Giordano leads as bassist, tubaist and bass saxophonist, is peppered with names such as Duke Ellington, Benny Top Stories from LiveDaily.com
  • The red-hot jazz saxophonist Bhumibol and his beautiful Queen Sirikit, who celebrated their golden jubilee on May 5, 2000, continue to reign and enjoy the respect and devotion of the Thai people.
  • Reed and bassist Josh Abrams lay down propulsive grooves, over which vibist Jason Adasiewicz floats spiky harmonic patterns; this gives alto saxophonist Greg Ward and cellist Tomeka Reid plenty to work with once they break out of their unison melodic lines and turn to improvising. Chicago Reader
  • His mother was a housewife and his father a saxophonist. Times, Sunday Times
  • A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hard childhood in the segregated South.
  • Though her alter ego saxophonist Jim Tomlinson and fine guitarist John Parricelli are on hand, there's perhaps not so much in this music for the more demandingly jazz-dependent. This week's new live music
  • Then as now, the soprano and tenor saxophonist has thrived by constantly seeking new adventures and doing the unexpected.
  • Phil Robson The Immeasurable Code British jazz guitarist Robson is no stranger to transatlantic partnerships, but this one with the understatedly persuasive American postbop saxophonist Mark Turner – a recording caught live on tour this year – might be the best of them. F&M playlist
  • His poem pays homage to saxophonist John Coltrane.
  • We see her tremulous schoolgirl self auditioning for the band along with a trio of equally improbable hopefuls: a ukulele-playing nun, an upper-crust saxophonist and a male drummer ready to don a frock to dodge the draft.
  • (Thursday) "Praia" (Inner Circle) is the appealingly self-assured debut by Sara Serpa, a young Portuguese singer now serving a productive apprenticeship with the alto saxophonist Greg Osby. NYT > Home Page
  • Saxophonist Greg Tardy provides a good foil with some subtly understated and nostalgic lines that catch the mood of the night.
  • David Binney, the American saxophonist, is based at New York's 55 Bar, as is the raw-boned and independent guitarist Wayne Krantz, who joins him on this set.
  • Hardly anybody but jazz buffs knows about the tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray any more.
  • Veteran jazzmen like Charles Lloyd are frequently described as "saxophonist-composer-bandleaders," but in Mr. Lloyd's case that order is incorrect. Freddie, Jacky, Charlie and the Doc
  • Bands of that era also featured great pianists, bassists, trumpeters, flautists, violinists, and occasional saxophonists.
  • The finale began on a dark stage, a haunting series of tunes by my favorite living tenor saxophonist, Igor Butman.
  • Despite the occasional lapse, this was a fine performance by the young saxophonist.
  • At the end of the last chorus - the last chorus, the band does something; the saxophonists do a fast kind of whinny trill. 100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw
  • The saxophonist and bandleader tours a strong line-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • When one slightly cocky young saxophonist announced the title of the song he intended to play, he was nonplussed when Arriale asked him if he knew the lyrics.
  • A screaming-chorus of local popstrels accompanies one song, a marching band of local trumpeters and saxophonists another.
  • The British saxophonist still leads the pack. Times, Sunday Times
  • Coming as a complete contrast to the saxophonist's often turbulent output in recent years, this album is a collection of introspective ballads.
  • This CD features five recording sessions from 1949-the year in which the majestic New Orleans-born soprano saxophonist decided to make France his home.
  • He said the group—which included saxophonist Ted Nash, who played in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Michael Blake, a reedman in the leading downtown band the Lounge Lizards—was a response to a fracture in the jazz scene between experimental clubs downtown and conservative institutions uptown. New Comfort Under the Covers
  • Guest musicians include guitarist Rodney Jones, violinist Mads Tolling, saxophonist Teodross Avery, flugelhornist Marvin Stamm, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and percussionist Emedin Rivera. Playbill.com : News
  • The piece is dedicated to alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley.
  • His solos are seldom more than three minutes long, but he squeezes more into three minutes than most saxophonists could play in ten.
  • The Greek expat tenor saxophonist has the lightest of touches. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite the occasional lapse, this was a fine performance by the young saxophonist.
  • The playing is almost always exquisite, from the folksy piano lilt and almost pop-hook conviviality of Utnem's Kyrie, to the evocative spaciousness of Nu Seglar Vi Inn, a slowly spun web that makes remarkable use of the saxophonist's tone-bending and panpipe-like inflections. Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem: Purcor – review
  • Then as now, the soprano and tenor saxophonist has thrived by constantly seeking new adventures and doing the unexpected.
  • The tenor saxophonist's rousing stomps and sensitive ballads are deeply imprinted in his fans' memories.
  • A Grammy award-winning clarinettist, saxophonist and composer, he blurred the lines between classical and popular music, recording more than 40 albums which journeyed between dancehall, samba, bossa nova, jazz and orchestral music. Paulo Moura obituary
  • He began working as a jazz saxophonist in 1940.
  • The veteran soprano saxophonist is pre-eminent on his instrument and has worked with many jazz greats, including Thelonious Monk, Gil Evans and Cecil Taylor.
  • The key early figures in the development of the Chicago avant-garde -- pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, saxophonist Fred Anderson, reedman Anthony Braxton and the members of the group the Art Ensemble of Chicago -- tended toward a quieter, more contemplative sound than the raucous dissonance often heard in New York avant-garde jazz circles, and they started The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Chicago's Avant-Garde Musicians
  • With last year's Happy People, former Miles Davis saxophonist Kenny Garrett mixed tough improvising and striking pop-jazz themes so well that even the most sneering fundamentalist jazzers thought twice about complaining.
  • He was a tenor saxophonist and a violinist.
  • He is a fluid, elegant player who rejects the star soloist approach of many a saxophonist faced with the trio format.
  • Despite the occasional lapse, this was a fine performance by the young saxophonist.
  • Before those 1968 Olympics, he would be tinkering with 15 pairs of skis at a time, like a saxophonist with his reeds, and finally choosing.

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