He could make his saxophones honk, croon, cackle and lament.
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There's even a new husband-wife band simply called The Saxophones.
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Trumpets and saxophones don't age as well as off-key relationship whining.
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Walking Distance — a quartet of two saxophones, bass and drums — gets that.
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He took qawwali to Europe and America, where he performed backed by saxophones.
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He began placing miniature musical instruments such as bongos, saxophones, and guitars on his sets.
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Loud, up-tempo sections have the punchy drive of a minimalist band, with saxophones prominent.
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Each of the models accessorized his look with instruments ranging from saxophones, trumpets, clarinets and flutes.
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We created that piece for a performance at the American Center there, with the bass saxophones.
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"____45_____" shows Bon Iver's fascination with saxophones on this record; the instrument shows up on several songs.
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The colors are vibrant: bright red lipstick, white sailboats slicing through blue water, gleaming saxophones and trumpets.
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The prices of Selmer's saxophones range from 2,700 to 20,000 euros, with an average of 4,500 euros.
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He regroups them here: Matt Vashlishan on saxophones, Bobby Avey on piano and Alex Ritz on drums.
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"Just to really drive home what that exactly meant: saxophones weren't allowed, but accordions were," she said.
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Carolina: Indie rock from the 90s or electronic music with some sexy saxophones and a strong bassline.
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For the solo thing I usually have a couple saxophones, an acoustic guitar, now an electric guitar.
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Mr. Coltrane has a warbling sound that's as thick as ink on the tenor and soprano saxophones.
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CARAMANICA Two guitars, two drum kits, two tenor saxophones, bass, keyboards and a whole lot of reverb.
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Mr. Rodriguez plays with an unreserved flexibly on the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones; flute; and bass clarinet.
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I'd pick up the thread, and we'd improvise into dawn, like two beat-up tenor saxophones, exchanging riffs.
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We'll be touring with two saxophones and a keyboardist this time, versus a trumpet, which we used to do.
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Miss Universe, her debut, draws on indie rock and soul, power chords and saxophones, and multi-tracked vocal harmonies.
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But if you listen closer you can hear something else at the core, in the shimmering bells and luminous saxophones.
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The Psychedelic Furs actually re-recorded the track for the movie soundtrack, and the new version features saxophones more prominently.
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In 21966, he produced a memorable session with Miles Davis on trumpet and Charlie Parker and Mr. Rollins on saxophones.
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Finally, one afternoon, the dinosaurs came in with a troupe of performers dressed in army garb playing saxophones and stomping around.
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According to the concert's organizers, this was the first time the Partch instruments had been combined with a quartet of saxophones.
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It crawls through muck, broken-down guitars and back-alley bass tripping over lazy drums, interrupted by wailing, atonal background saxophones.
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Steinway's brands include Bach Stradivarius trumpets, Selmer Paris saxophones, C.G. Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones and Ludwig snare drums.
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Now, Chinese factories produce more than 180,000 saxophones a year, said Li Yusheng, a prominent Chinese saxophonist who studies the industry.
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Its walls had framed photographs of Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, and religious literature shared space with saxophones, keyboards and guitars.
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The ambient sound, like wind rustling trees and saxophones playing behind Frank Sinatra on New York, New York, moved a little forward.
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As Happy Runxin's band struck up saxophones, trumpets, oboes and drums, a monitor next to the troupe flickered to life: 75 decibels.
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Lain across the top, switching between saxophones, trumpet, flute and clarinet, is Mr. Carter, a picture of patience and warm power. G.R.
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On "A Separatist Party," Jason Stein's bass clarinet dances in a coy, misfit step with the Greg Ward and Tim Haldeman's saxophones.
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Sidangkou, which calls itself China's "saxophone capital," produces about 10,000 saxophones per month at more than 70 factories, according to Chinese news media.
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This weekend he presents Origin II, an updated edition of a late-'90s band, now with Ravi Coltrane and Steve Wilson on saxophones.
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He'll have Jaleel Shaw on saxophones, Fima Ephron on bass, Brad Williams on guitar and the silk-toned Amma Whatt on vocals. (jazzstandard.com)
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Although best known for playing saxophones of all sizes, his arsenal also included clarinet, trumpet, violin, harmonica, panpipes, keyboards, trombone, ukulele and banjo.
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His World Ensemble features a strong rhythm section and soloists like Grégoire Maret on harmonica, Yosvany Terry on saxophones and Marshall Gilkes on trombone.
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Rich saxophones and organs stood in for synthesizers, drums jangled and twitched, and vocalists like King Krule gave the beats another sheet of voice.
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He appears here with the members of his quartet: Scott Robinson on saxophones and reeds, Rufus Reid on bass and Billy Drummond on drums.
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Accordions might remind us of piazzas in Italy and saxophones could conjure up memories of New Orleans, but what instrument best represents New York?
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In Mr. Braith's mosaic, he is clad in a slick red blazer and carrying his signature Braithophone, alto and soprano saxophones melded into one.
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It applies Auto-Tune and other gadgetry; it unleashes samples and distortion; it tucks phalanxes of overdubbed saxophones and backup vocals into its mix.
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Mr. Jarman played various saxophones in a style both earthy and imploring, with strong projection, impressive breath control and an abundance of extended techniques.
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The soundtrack inside – courtesy Kiko's iPod – spans English comic George Formby, Danish popstar Whigfield, and Manchester dance act 808 State, even though Kiko loathes saxophones.
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Accordions and autoharps, flutes and saxophones, violins and clarinets, whistles and hand claps... The Hope Six Demolition Project is an explosive euphony of sound and movement.
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But if the news just isn't your thing, you can also buy the same jacket in other designs: saxophones, people wearing cool hats, and animal hides.
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He teams up here with Ms. Pascale, a vocalist; his quartet features Stacy Dillard on saxophones, Luques Curtis on bass and Mark Whitfield Jr. on drums.
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NATE CHINEN The jazz supergroup of the hour features Dave Holland on bass, Chris Potter on saxophones, Lionel Loueke on guitar and Eric Harland on drums.
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The set closed with "The Rhythm Changes," a blues extension written by Ms. Maricle, with the trombones, trumpets and saxophones unified in a full-throated declaration.
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This year, his four musician sons — Wynton on trumpet, Branford on saxophones, Delfeayo on trombone and Jason on drums — joined him to perform his own compositions.
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David Bowie premiered the Johan Renck-directed video for "Lazarus" on Thursday, and it's a brilliantly disturbing four minutes - all hospital beds, convulsions and woozily deranged saxophones.
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Mr. Stacken, an inquisitive pianist, features a series of pieces for a quartet with Tony Malaby on saxophones, Sean Conly on bass and Tom Rainey on drums.
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It's a behemoth of a piece, with electric guitars, saxophones, violins, cellos, flutes, synthesizers, and percussion instruments all seemingly jockeying for position, interlocked in inscrutable rhythmic structures.
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Mr. Ritter said he introduced Mr. Brecker to the younger saxophonist Chris Potter in the shop so that Mr. Potter could buy one of Mr. Brecker's saxophones.
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At Bowery Electric, a heavy-gauge supertrio called SFD — Colin Stetson on saxophones, Greg Fox on drums, Trevor Dunn on bass — delivered pummeling noise with ironclad control.
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Consisting of Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer, it specializes in instruments unlike anything you've ever heard: the nose flute, the slide-whistle organ, saxophones made of plumbing.
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All of which makes this appearance, featuring her longstanding trio (Bley on piano, Steve Swallow on bass and Andy Sheppard on saxophones), something especially worth seeking out.
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"Life is a Dance" is Chaka's climax, wrangling together trombones, drums, and saxophones to summon listeners to set aside their differences and rise up together in communal celebration.
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He sang all over South Asia (being a star in India and Bangladesh as well) and took qawwali to Europe and America, where he performed backed by saxophones.
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Singers belted out, "We are the inheritors of Communism," accompanied by three saxophones, a trombone, drums and an erhu, a Chinese two-stringed instrument, all played by retirees.
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Festival with a groove-oriented new band featuring Terrace Martin on saxophones and keyboards, Lionel Loueke on guitar, James Genus on bass and Trevor Lawrence Jr. on drums.
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Sidangkou, which is near Tianjin, a large northeastern city, began producing saxophones in the 1990s, as China became a powerhouse exporter and Western cultural influences become more prominent.
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Guitars, cellos, flutes, saxophones and trumpets will be in the "Instrument Petting Zoo" at this free open house at the community arts school at the Kaufman Music Center.
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He has been quietly working on his solo project for the past year, completing an amazing EP and perfecting the live band the features synths, drums and TWO saxophones.
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The Micros — four saxophones and a piano-bass-drum rhythm section — began with "A Strange Thought Entered My Head," written by the co-leader and soprano saxophonist Phillip Johnston.
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Michael Attias: Renku (Saturday) Renku, a trio made up of Mr. Attias on saxophones, John Hébert on bass and Satoshi Takeishi on drums, applies an elaborative process to group improvisation.
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While the next band on stage was busy sound checking their saxophones, the Bam Bam backstage street food party continued with a vegan burger from the café Mikuna in Aarhus.
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Mr. Ritter, 59, has been repairing saxophones in Midtown for more than 40 years and is the go-to technician for some of the biggest jazz players in New York.
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"Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" slams out a boom-bap hip-hop beat while Mr. Bowie's voice leaps through an odd-angled melody amid a swarm of overdubbed saxophones.
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Though he played with Charles Mingus and recorded with Quincy Jones, Mr. Kirk more frequently led his own bands, often dazzling his audiences by playing multiple saxophones at the same time.
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He kicks off with his Elektric Band, a fusion dynamo featuring Eric Marienthal on saxophones, Frank Gambale on guitar, John Patitucci on bass and Dave Weckl on drums (through Oct. 23).
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Next Wednesday and Thursday he revisits the music from his 1981 album "Three Quartets," leading a band with Ben Solomon on saxophones, Eddie Gomez on bass and Steve Gadd on drums.
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He's still building his track record as a composer-bandleader, but "Rise of Orion" makes a compelling argument, featuring a trio with Yasushi Nakamura on bass and Jon Irabagon on saxophones.
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Though it also makes clarinets, bassoons and trumpets, the company is best known for saxophones played by jazz legends like John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter.
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This tribute, led by a former associate, the pianist George Cables, features Victor Lewis on drums; Abraham Burton and Craig Handy on saxophones; Dezron Douglas on bass; and Joe Locke on vibraphone.
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Vernon is crouched over his synthesiser, with his now customary baseball cap and relaxed clothing befitting the serenity of our surroundings; the others are placed behind saxophones, more synthesizers, drums and guitars.
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The musicians included Henri Agnel on Arabic guitars, Idriss Agnel on percussion, Philippe Botta on Arabic flutes and saxophones, Gil Goldstein on accordion, Vana Gierig on piano, and Romain Lecuyer on bass.
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A lot of activity often happens at once in McBride's ensemble: spitfire soloing from the saxophones and brass; calisthenic bowed-bass workouts from the bandleader; sprightly, charging momentum from the rhythm section.
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"Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus" features tuba, saxophones, cello, drums and three pianos, all playing parts that feel balanced and spacious and give each other enough room to land a plane.
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Madley Croft, who helped write two of the album's songs and served as a sounding board, praised Jehnny Beth's genre experiments, which include android vocal stylings, melancholic saxophones and a piano ballad.
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Poetic and peculiar, the track is mixed with minimalist synths, echoing vocals and a collection of non-abrasive saxophones that appear as synthetic and eerie as every other instrument on the record.
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The kind of drum and bass that has really naff saxophones on it—the kind that always makes me think of bad record shops and people who are really into watching Spaced.
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The latest example is "In Movement," the debut ECM release by an exploratory trio with Mr. DeJohnette on drums and piano, Ravi Coltrane on saxophones and Matthew Garrison on electronics and bass guitar.
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"Monkey in a Tree" featured a chattering cacophony among the saxophones — an outcry characterized as "loose-tongue signifying" in Mr. Marsalis's remarks, which struck a typical balance between hospitable wit and elaborative instruction.
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Her newest collaborator is Susan Alcorn, playing pedal steel guitar; the octet's killer front line consists of Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet, Jon Irabagon and Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones and Jacob Garchik on trombone.
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Just look at these TV commercials; using cutting-edge graphics, wailing saxophones, and catchphrases like, "Now, drink that thought!" and "Made with imported Canadian water," it's no wonder this drink was the shit.
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There's a quiet bravado to Lovano's playing — on both tenor and soprano saxophones — that allows him to make a home in almost any jazz style, from the freely improvised to the rigorously composed.
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The core of her group features Greg Ward on alto and soprano saxophones, Matt Mitchell on piano and Ches Smith on drums; the string quartet has a pacesetter in the violinist Sara Caswell.
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This tribute is effectively led by the pianist Renee Rosnes, an alumna of his bands, and features Randy Brecker on trumpet, Jimmy Greene on saxophones, George Mraz on bass and Al Foster on drums.
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"Flesh" showcases Ms. Sánchez's amalgam of unkempt flow and patterned logic: She sets the tone up front with an angular, two-handed tangle, eventually fading behind the saxophones of Román Filiu and Jerome Sabbagh.
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Glittering keyboards and white-funk rhythm guitar hooks are distorted by bursts of static, synthetic textures short-circuiting, raw saxophones bleating and wailing, thus constructing a multifaceted electronic surface gone slightly rotten, tinged with decay.
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With the release of his first solo record, Isophonic Boogie Woogie (1980), Young carved out his own unique sonic space that combined electronic and acoustic instrumentals, bringing together everything from saxophones and synths, to kalimbas.
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What's indisputable is that it introduces Aggregate Prime, the same all-star quintet found here, with Gary Thomas on saxophones and flute, Mark Whitfield on guitar, Vijay Iyer on piano, and Kenny Davis on bass.
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This week at the Vanguard, the group — Steve Wilson on saxophones, Warren Wolf on vibraphone, Peter Martin on piano and Carl Allen on drums — is trotting out an entirely new book of compositions and arrangements.
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Justin Bieber has apologized to a lot of people lately, but he hasn't gone on the record saying sorry to high school jazz bands everywhere for failing to prominently feature saxophones on his latest album, Purpose.
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His new album, "Old Locks and Irregular Verbs" (Pi), uses a different setup: two pianos (Jason Moran and David Virelles) and two alto saxophones (Roman Filiu and Curtis MacDonald), as well as cello, tuba and drums.
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The pianist Renee Rosnes, an alumna of his bands, leads this tribute by the Phantom Band, which also features Randy Brecker on trumpet, Jimmy Greene on saxophones, David Wong on bass and Al Foster on drums.
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As they ambled along the route, families stood on their porches or in their yards to sing "Happy birthday" in harmony, or to play the tune on everything from guitars and ukeleles to saxophones and trumpets.
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Mr. Fortune was known for his mix of urgency and grace, and his stalwart command — not just of the alto saxophone, his primary instrument, but also of the flute, clarinet, and soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones.
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Listening to the high-pitch squeal produced by 44 of these interactive toys at the same time hits a nerve I didn't know I had—although I admit it still doesn't sound as awful as some saxophones.
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As woozy saxophones and screeching guitars join in, we pass along the blankets shrouding a figure in a bed, past hands clutching on tightly and on to Bowie, dressed in white and blindfolded, buttons covering his eyes.
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Over the course of this past week, the Anaheim Convention Center was filled with a raucous cacophony of guitars, ukuleles, banjos, drums, cymbals, harmonicas, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, tubas, trombones, pianos, and a few weird hybrid creations in between.
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One of my favorite saxophone players of all time, Rahsaan Roland Kirk—he was blind, he played three saxophones at once, plus he could whistle through his nose and all kinds of other shit, he was fucking amazing.
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One movement dominated by a blend of saxophones with vibraphone and steel drums seemed to me a beautiful study in growing density and brilliance, its golden shimmer brightening with the addition of high notes in the soprano saxophone.
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He recently broke his silence with a New York appearance, and appears in this cozy setting at the helm of a smart postbop quartet with Joel Frahm on saxophones, Dave Kikoski on piano and Ugonna Okegwo on bass.
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But I love the show's unconditional love for New York City, the way so many episodes end with Carrie sauntering down a rain-slicked sidewalk, espousing her love for the Big Apple as saxophones wail in the background.
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In celebration of the record's release, the Baylors appear here with Keith Loftis on saxophones, Freddie Hendrix on trumpet, Shedrick Mitchell on piano and Yasushi Nakamura on bass, with backing vocals from Stephanie Fisher and Voices of Inspiration.
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The law, passed in 1926 with the aim of taming Harlem's jazz scene (it originally included an explicit ban on saxophones), is often used today as a convenient way for police to shut down any venue they disapprove of.
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For this milestone birthday celebration, he leads his band Expansions, an ensemble with one longtime collaborator (the bassist Tony Marino) and several younger partners (Matt Vashlishan on saxophones, Bobby Avey on piano and keyboards, and Alex Ritz on drums).
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With a TV on mute providing cues, he and his 8-Bit Big Band were recording the music from Mario Kart 64, blown way out with 36 instruments, including saxophones, trumpets, trombones, 133 violins, three cellos and a harp.
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The album made him a star, and its stark minimalism and backstory made it all the more surprising when his second album as Bon Iver, also titled Bon Iver, was a wall-to-wall affair of synthesizers, saxophones and other instruments.
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I can't speak on behalf of everyone but there are guys here mic'ing up their heart beats and playing their saxophones along to it, kids recording the vibrations of power lines and building beats around them, seems vibrant to me.
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Counsel describes the rise of Syliphone and its core state-funded orchestras: The government supplied all of the groups with musical instruments, which, in the vein of the Cuban/Jazz style popular at the time, included electric guitars, saxophones and trumpets.
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The family hopes the sale to Argos Soditic will allow it to modernize its outdated machines and face down Chinese pressure on a brand known for saxophones played by jazz legends like John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter.
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Colin Stetson turns his bass sax—the most unwield and temperamental of the saxophones—into a one-man band act that has to be seen to be believed, and he might be the most innovative wind instrumentalist of our time.
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Here they appear as part of the monthly Soup & Sound House Concert series, joined by a band of intrepid improvisers: Miguel Crozzoli on saxophones, Guillermo Gregorio on clarinet, Jaimie Branch on trumpet, Lee Odom on clarinet and Ken Filiano on bass.soupandsound.
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His next album will be recorded right after this engagement, with the same excellent coalition of peers who will perform here: Steve Wilson and Jimmy Green on saxophones, Larry Willis on piano, Peter Washington on bass and Lewis Nash on drums.
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"We thought it would be a great idea if we brought two saxophones here to the rally for Hillary Clinton so he could play one and he could play one," he said, pointing to a friend who plays in a jazz band.
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He played a live set accompanied by three saxophones ("It was so stupid," he recalls with a laugh), and a number of his friends hopped behind a laptop to DJ for a crowd that turned out to be too big for the kitchen.
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Mr. Bowie, an elusive rock star whose music has been as famously changeable as his image, enlisted the Donny McCaslin Quartet, a rugged jazz-rock combo featuring Mr. McCaslin on saxophones, Jason Lindner on keyboards, Tim Lefebvre on electric bass and Mark Guiliana on drums.
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Instead of having his guitar at their center, they largely relied on a portable synthesizer and sampler along with a customized Vocoder and thoughts of the heady blend of Duke Ellington's saxophone sections; one new song, he said, weaves about 150 saxophones into its mix.
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MANTES-LA-VILLE, France (Reuters) - Its saxophones are played by the most famous jazzmen around the world and have even been sent into space, but growing competition from China pushed the French family company Henri Selmer Paris to sell a majority stake to an investment fund.
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A little bassoon fact for you: There are two bassoon strap types, a seat strap (which I prefer) that clips onto the butt of the horn and which you literally sit on, or a neck harness so a bassoonist can wear their instrument like a saxophone (ew, saxophones).
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The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra opened its first set at the Village Vanguard on a recent Monday night with a familiar blend of purring saxophones and punchy brass, carving up "Big Dipper" just as it had in its first performance in the same room almost exactly 50 years ago.
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The instrument has been largely invisible for the last 22016 years after the disastrous 281s, when saxophones in pop music could best summed up by the viral Sexy Sax Man video and jazz was taken over by Kenny G, someone who other sax players wish people would forget.
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Carl Allen & the Heritage Band (Friday through Sunday) Mr. Allen, a seasoned drummer in the swinging modern jazz mainstream, convenes a band with a lot of shared mileage, as well as a common aesthetic: Steve Turre on trombone, Tim Green on saxophones, Bruce Barth on piano and David Williams on bass.
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Wrangling freaked-out riffs from electric guitars and sputtering saxophones, these acid-fried nods to the long history of populist rock music creates a version of noise-rock (or maybe in this case, rock-noise) that better reflects the unsettling political state of the United States—a new, uncanny Americana.
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With X-Communicate, released this past May on Sub Pop, Kristin offers up bold, bright collection informed by her love of pop hooks sharp as darts and tunes that wink at the glossy radio smashes of the 245s and early 212s—there are saxophones and there are synths to slide side-to-side to.
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The two main offerings opened last weekend: "Butterfly," a radically rethought take on Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," trimmed to about 100 minutes and arranged for a six-instrument ensemble; and "Carmen," a boldly conceived contemporary interpretation of Bizet's popular opera, trimmed to 90 minutes and arranged for a six-piece jazz-infused ensemble complete with saxophones and guitars.
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There are also musical instruments — a golden Wurlitzer pedal harp; a rare pre-Depression Mason & Hamlin piano that Mr. Lanier says has "a uniquely American sound," a 19th-century Chinese opium bed filled with saxophones, flutes, clarinets, lutes and ouds; mandolins covering the walls, and over a thousand more instruments, from a medieval cornetto to a shakuhachi, a Japanese flute — all of which Mr. Lanier can play.
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Whether it's the quivering harmonica that opens "The Rainbow," the radiant choir that appears at the end of "I Believe in You," or the dissonant thing that emerges four minutes into "After the Flood" and sustains itself for an entire minute (Hollis claims that it's two saxophones playing at once, but no saxophone credit appears on the album), every single sound is bursting with life.
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