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• n  a musician who plays the saxophone

• Then Tour comes in with a guitar riff worthy of onetime boss John Lee Hooker, and Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown's ex-saxophonist, blows on through.
• From enlisting Eddie Van Halen for the guitar solo in "Beat It" to borrowing the now famous refrain "Mama-se, mama-sa, mama-coo-sa" from a Cameroonian saxophonist, Michael .
• What's more, she is surrounded by the finest sidemen of the era (1935-42), including pianist Teddy Wilson and her musical and emotional soul mate, tenor saxophonist Lester Young.

• saxist

News & Articles

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• Singer Macy Gray, saxophonist David Murray grow collaboration from The Roots
  Singer Macy Gray, saxophonist David Murray have a 'monster love' It might seem like an odd pairing — Grammy-winning R&B-and-dance singer Macy Gray and Grammy-winning saxophonist David Murray.        
  June 14, 2013 - The Morning Call
• Fairfield Theatre Company Welcomes Saxophonist Bill Evans to StageOne
  Legendary saxophonist, Bill Evans & Soul Grass are coming to StageOne ,thanks to Fairfield Theatre Company. (PRWeb June 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10826543.htm
  June 14, 2013 - PRWeb
• On the Market: Six-time Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanborn has...
  Six-time Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanborn has high hopes for his handsome brick townhouse, around the corner from Lincoln Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The jazz legend is asking $12M for the five-bed, four-bath home, which he tried and failed...
  June 14, 2013 - Curbed

Quotes

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• John Scofield in Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung)
  John Scofield calls him "extraordinary, a total saxophonist."
• Nat Hentoff in Marblehead Reporter
  In fact, jazz critic Nat Hentoff wrote in Jazz Times, "Saxophonist Sonny Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master."
• Mike Stern in Vancouver Sun
  Miles and Jaco were very open-minded,says Stern. "A lot of the greats are that way. [Saxophonist] Joe Henderson was at my place once going through my record collection and he pulled out one by [blues guitarist] Stevie Ray Vaughan and said...