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David “Fathead” Newman interview
On his web site you can listen to a full length version of saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman’s signature tune, Hard Times (click here). In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, David Newman comments: Some people are intimidated by jazz. I don’t like to be derogatory, but people are under the impression that it is…
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Saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenon
On saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenon, Branford Marsalis said, “I listen for musical intelligence. Lots of jazz musicians spend their lives studying and then trying to make music out of academics. Miguel just grabbed the music. He was able to take something intellectual and make it sound organic and natural.” Zenon, who is only 26,…
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Alan Barnes – saxophonist and composer from the UK
Alan Barnes, a saxophone player and composer from the UK, has written a “Sherlock Holmes Suite”, which includes tunes such as Watson’s Women- (Portrait Of Mary Morstan) – “A jazz waltz look at Watson’s wives, M.M in particular and his ‘experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents’”. Check out Alan’s…