Ove Johansson Musician – All About Jazz
There are few white saxophone players that has such a black feeling like Ove Johansson. NYE TAKTER, NORWAY. Ove Johansson’s tenor playing has a force and intensy that is rare in Swedish jazz. HALLANDSPOSTEN, SWEDEN. The tenor player Ove Johansson is a very powerful and inventive saxplayer, who all the time strives to really improvise. […]
Eric Alexander Musician – All About Jazz
Boasting a warm, finely burnished tone and a robust melodic and harmonic imagination, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander has been exploring new musical worlds from the outset. He started out on piano as a six-year-old, took up clarinet at nine, switched to alto sax when he was 12, and converted to tenor when jazz became his […]
Stanley Turrentine Musician – All About Jazz
Stanley William Turrentine was one of the most distinctive tenor saxophonists in jazz. Known for his big, warm, sound, “The Sugar Man” or the original “Mr. T” found inspiration in the blues and turned it into a hugely successful career with a #1 hit and four Grammy nominations — first in R&B and then in […]
Anna Webber Musician – All About Jazz
Anna Webber (b. 1984) is a New York-based flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live the overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Her new album, Clockwise, featuring a septet comprised of several of the most creative musicians working in New York’s avant-garde, will be released on Pi Recordings in February 2019. […]
Albert Ayler Musician – All About Jazz
Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler was born on July 13th 1936 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He learned to play the alto sax at a young age. His father, Edward, encouraged his musical interests and was his first teacher. Albert Ayler continued his musical education at John Adams High School, where he played oboe, and at the […]
David S. Ware Musician – All About Jazz
David S. Ware played the saxophone for over 40 years. First in New Jersey public school bands, and in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins as a youth in the ’60s; then as part of the fertile NYC Loft Jazz era of the ’70s. During this decade, he joined the Cecil Taylor Unit and Andrew […]
Teddy Edwards Musician – All About Jazz
Video / DVD Video: Teddy Edwards, 1962 Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers June 5, 2014 In the tenor sax pantheon, there’s Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But then there are dozens of smaller giants who were solid, fluid, soulful players, including Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Harold Land, […]