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unusual facts about Sax


Sax, Minnesota

Sax is an unincorporated community in McDavitt Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.


Bernardo Padrón

After graduating from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music Performance program in 1986, Bernardo played tenor and alto sax in the Toronto Latin musical community, as well as recording with various local jazz projects (Don Valley Parkway, Mosaic) as a sideman.

Box of Toys

Box of Toys were a short-lived British New Wave band, consisting of members Brian Atherton (lead vocals and keyboards), Andy Redhead (drums and guitar), Phil Martin (sax, keyboards and vocals), and Roy Campbell (bass and vocals).

Chalumeau

Additionally, a similar instrument called the xaphoon (also called "Maui bamboo sax" or "pocket sax") was developed by Hawaiian craftsman Brian Wittman.

Cliff Butler

The session musicians included blind pianist Benny Holton, who regularly accompanied Butler, as well as Chicago stalwarts Leon Washington on tenor sax and Red Saunders on the drum stool.

Community Swing

The personnel on the session featured Glenn Miller, Jeffe Ralph, Harry Rodgers, and Jerry Jerome on trombone, George Siravo and Hal McIntyre on alto sax, Carl Biesecker on tenor sax, Charlie Spivak, Mannie Klein, and Sterling Bose on trumpets, Howard Smith on piano, Dick McDonough on guitar, Ted Kotsoftis on bass, and George T. Simon on drums.

Doc Cheatham

Cheatham played in Albert Wynn's band (and occasionally substituted for Armstrong at the Vendome Theater), and recorded on sax with Ma Rainey before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927, where he worked with the bands of Bobby Lee and Wilbur de Paris before moving to New York City the following year.

Don Gililland

:: Gary Slavo, Tom Wirtel, Bob Clull, Chris Witherspoon (trumpets), Don Jacoby (trumpet, leader), Dee Barton, William Barton, Loren Binford, Dave Wheeler (trombones), Al Beutler, John Giordano (alto sax), Jerry Keys (alto & bari sax), Bob Pierson, Don Melka (tenor sax), Keith Jarrett (piano), Don Gililland (guitar), Toby Guynn (bass), John Von Ohlen (drums)

Drama of Exile

Recorded at Gooseberry Studios in Tulse Hill, London, with a band composed of Quilichini, guitarist Mahammad Hadi, drummer Steve Cordonna, Ian Dury's sax player Davey Payne, and Andy Clark, the keyboard player who so sparkled on David Bowie's Scary Monsters album.

Eric Marienthal

Shortly after that, he was voted one of the year's "Favorite Alto Sax Players" in Jazziz Magazine's Reader's Poll along with David Sanborn and Phil Woods.

Fantastiske Toyota

The album was released in 1981; the band was the time a quintet as Niels Dan Andersen plays the sax and keyboard.

Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979

Accompanying Cohen was the jazz band Passenger from Austin, Texas, consisting of members Steve Meador on drums, Roscoe Beck on bass, Mitch Watkins on guitar, Bill Ginn on keyboards and Paul Ostermayer on sax and flute.

Gaylord Birch

In 1979, he joined Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia in Reconstruction the new outfit Merl & Jerry are putting together with the help of Ed Neumeister (trombone), Ron Stallings (Tenor Sax & Vocals) and John Kahn (Bass).

Gyula Sax

Gyula Sax participated twice in a row in the Candidates Tournament after qualifying at the Subotica Interzonal in 1987 and at the Manila Interzonal in 1990 respectively but was eliminated in the Candidates in 1988 by Nigel Short (+0=3−2) and in 1991 after extra-time by then sixty years old Viktor Korchnoi (+1=6-1; +0 =1-1 rapid chess).

Herb Geller

In 1949 Geller went to New York City for the first time, where he performed in the bands of Jack Fina, (with Paul Desmond also in the sax section), Claude Thornhill, Jerry Wald and Lucky Millinder.

I Would Die 4 U

The extended version of "I Would Die 4 U" is actually a studio jam on the song with The Revolution and musicians from Sheila E.'s band, Eddie M (on sax) and Miko Weaver (guitar), along with Sheila E. herself; most of this version was often performed live, preceding "Baby I'm a Star".

Jarmo Savolainen

Jarmo Savolainen Quartet & Quintet: True Image (1995; with Dave Liebman and Sonny Heinilä (sax), Tim Hagans (trumpet), Ron McClure (bass), and Billy Hart (drums))

Jarmo Savolainen Quintet: Another Story (1997; with Tim Hagans (trumpet), Sonny Heinilä (sax), Anders Jormin (bass), and Markku Ounaskari (drums))

KHVN

Three years later, the station was renamed as KSAX (callsign to have stood for SAXophone) while maintaining its Jazz format before making its final switch to a Black Gospel formatted station as KHVN in 1985.

Let's Stick Together

The sax-driven "Let's Stick Together" originally by Wilbert Harrison, is widely regarded as Ferry's signature tune, and a classic dancefloor-filler.

Little Devil

the personnel on the song included Al Caiola, Bucky Pizzarelli and Charles Macy on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, Phil Kraus on percussion, David "Panama" Francis on drums, Romeo Penque, Sol Schillinger and Herman Yorks on sax.

Lloyd Hunter

In 1927 it become an 8-piece band with Lloyd Hunter on trumpet, Elmer Crumbley on trombone, Noble Floyd on clarinet and alto sax, Bob Welch on trombone, tenor sax and bass sax; Burton Brewer on piano; Julius Alexander on banjo; Wallace Wright on tuba, and; Amos Clayton on drums.

Maximilian Sax

Maximilian Sax (born 22 November 1992) is an Austrian footballer who plays for Admira Wacker.

Michel Herr

He led several bands, from the trio to the big band, a.o. a European quintet with Wolfgang Engstfeld (sax) and Bert Joris (tp), a nonet named "Life Lines", etc..

MSN Games

Many of the "Giants of Backgammon" (top 32 in the world) participated in Zone tournaments, including Neil Kazaross, Johannes Levermann, Steve Sax, Howard Ring, Paul Weaver, Kit Woolsey, and Bill Robertie.

Muluken Melesse

His first song on vinyl was Hedetch Alu, which was recorded in 1972 by Girma Bèyènè (piano and arrangements), Tesfa Mariam Kidane (tenor sax), Tekle Adhanonm (guitar), Fekade Amde Meskel (bass), Tesfay Mekonnen (drums) and Melesse himself.

Night Beats

The Bermudas: Tarek Wegner (guitar, vocals), Woody Brenton of Fuzzy Cloaks (drums, vocals), Mike Ni (bass, sax, vocals)

Nova Bossa Nova

Nova Bossa Nova was a Brazilian jazz ensemble consisting of Claudio Roditi on trumpet, Bob Mintzer on tenor sax, Joe Ford on alto sax, and Eddie Monteiro on vocals.

Phil Carmen

The corresponding promotional tour led to the Live in Montreux album with the same band line up of Brian Auger on organ, Pick Withers and Larry E. Van on drums, Dick Morrissey on sax, Steve Dawson on trumpet, Steve Evens on bass, and Sabine van Baaren, backing vocals.

Rowland Greenberg

he was a central part of Oslo's swing-jazz milieu, where he led his own Rowland Greenberg Swing Band (1939–41) with Arvid Gram Paulsen on sax, Lulle Kristoffersen on piano and Pete Brown on drums.

Ruder Than You

This included the demise of the band’s former label Moon Records, a 3-year incarceration of lead singer and toaster Freddie "3D" Weaver, and the death of bari-sax player Trish Johnson, who was killed in the morning while traveling to Shenandoah, PA, to visit her mother.

Rudi Wilfer

He was also in demand as an accompanist for artists such as Slide Hampton (trombone), Billy Mitchel (tenor sax), Harold Jones (drums), Art Farmer (trumpet), and many more.

Russell Procope

In 1938 Procope replaced Pete Brown in John Kirby's sextet, with whom he played exclusively alto sax until 1945 (with an interruption for World War II).

Sax Impey

Sax Impey currently lives and works in St Ives, Cornwall, occupying one of the prestigious Porthmeor Studios continuing in the tradition of Patrick Heron, Ben Nicholson and other recognized artists.

Seigneury of Villena

Less central were the towns of Iniesta, the Land of Jorquera, Hellín, Tobarra, Almansa, Yecla, Sax and Villena, which, despite giving the name to the seigneury, was territorially peripheral.

Skin Alley

Thomas Crimble (bass/keyboards/vocals), Alvin Pope (drums), Krzysztof Henryk Juszkiewicz (keyboards), and Bob James (sax/guitar) made inroads quickly and found themselves signed to CBS Records for their self-titled debut in 1969 and its 1970 follow-up, To Pagham & Beyond.

Sons of Champlin

In 1965 the draft claimed the drummer and bass player of the Opposite Six, and Champlin joined forces with guitarist Terry Haggerty, sax player Tim Cain, bassist John Prosser and drummer Jim Meyers in the band that became the Sons of Champlin.

Steps Ahead

The first line-up of Steps in the period 1979-1981, as can be read on the live album Smokin' in the Pit, consisted of Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Steve Gadd (drums), Eddie Gomez (bass), Don Grolnick (piano), Mike Mainieri (vibraphone), and special guest Kazumi Watanabe (guitar).

Steve Mackay

In 2011 Radon and SOOPA released Mackay's new album Sometimes Like This I Talk which features other members of The Stooges, and also the album Machine Gun from U.S.S. with Mackay on sax.

Ted Weems

Among Weems' other discoveries were whistler-singer Elmo Tanner, sax player and singer Red Ingle, Marilyn Maxwell, who left the band for an acting career; and arranger Joe Haymes, who created the band's unique jazz-novelty style.

The Aints

With Artie Sledge (bass), Mark Dawson (drums) and Tim Hopkins (sax), the Aints released two albums of original songs: Ascension in November 1991 and Autocannibalism in 1992, both on Hot Records.

The John Barry Seven

At this point, the band consisted of Graham (drums), Dave Richmond (bass guitar), Ron Edgeworth (keyboards), Ray Russell (lead guitar), Terry Childs (baritone sax), Bob Downes (tenor sax) and Alan Bown (trumpet).

Transporte Urbano

Días chose a few young, Santo Domingo-based musicians for this project: Juan Francisco Ordóñez on electric guitar, Guy Frómeta on drums, Héctor Santana on bass (later replaced by Peter Nova), Bruno Ranson on sax and percussionist José Duluc.

Waiting for Herb

Jem Finer - banjo, soprano sax, hurdygurdy, guitar, pachinko, backing vocals

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