The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never popular in jazz until Sidney Bechet, who was the first jazz musician to use it exclusively. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong and ...
Sam Newsome's Blue Soliloquy is available at CD Baby. Soprano saxophone can be an unforgiving instrument. It's hard to play in tune, and many players get a pinched or nasal tone like it has a bad cold ...
At Montecitorio, for once, it won't just be words filling the hall. This morning, at 10, with 'Montecitorio a porte aperte', ...
David writes beautifully, with a unique... voice in the field of modern jazz composition... [He] plays fierce soprano saxophone, holding up strong next to Dick Oatts, George Garzone and other ...
Everyone in the recording studio on that memorable day in the early 1960s knew Henry Mancini’s “The Pink Panther” theme was something special. But no one, including tenor saxophone soloist Plas ...