- Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, known primarily for his unusually cool baritone saxophone sound and style; his writing and arranging for Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others; and, his own pianoless quartet of the early 1950s. - Harry Carney
Harry Howell Carney (1910 - 1974) was a swing baritone saxophonist, and bass clarinetist best known for his 45-year tenure in Duke Ellington's band. Carney started off in Ellington's band playing alto, but soon switched to the baritone. His strong, steady saxophone often serves as the anchor of Duke's music. He also played bass clarinet on occasion. - Howard Johnson
Howard Louis Johnson (b. August 7, 1941) in Montgomery, Alabama, is a self-taught post-bop jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he plays the bass clarinet, other reed instruments, cornet and penny whistle as well. In the 1960s he worked with Charles Mingus, Hank Crawford, Archie Shepp, and Hank Mobley on the album "A Slice of the Top". He also began a long association with Gil Evans in 1966. - Gary Smulyan
Gary Smulyan (born on April 4, 1956 in Bethpage, New York) is a baritone saxophone player in jazz. He studied at SUNY before working with Woody Herman. He also leads a quartet with Roland Hanna, Ray Drummond, and Kenny Washington. Smulyan is the current baritone saxophonist with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and for its previous incarnation, the Mel Lewis Big Band. He is also the baritone saxophonist for the Dave Holland Big Band, and the DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL STAR BIG BAND. - Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945 in Chicago) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, and pianist. He has created a large body of highly complex work. While not known by the general public, Braxton is one of the most prolific American musicians/composers to date, having released well over 100 albums of his works since the 1960s. Among the vast array of instruments he utilizes are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, C-Melody, F alto, E-flat alto, … - James Carter
James Carter (b. January 3 1969) is an American jazz musician. Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the mid-1990s, playing saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet. As a young man, he attended Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and was a member of the group, Bird-Trane-Sco-Now. - Hamiet Bluiett
Hamiet Bluiett (b. Brooklyn (or Lovejoy), Illinois, September 16, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument. He also plays (and records with) the bass saxophone, E-flat alto clarinet, E-flat contra-alto clarinet, and wooden flute. Bluiett was born just north of East St. Louis in Brooklyn, Illinois (also known as Lovejoy), … - John Surman
John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944 in Tavistock, Devon, England) is a jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player and composer. He has also composed and performed much music for dance performances and film soundtracks. He initially gained recognition playing baritone saxophone in the Mike Westbrook Band in the mid-1960s. He was soon heard regularly playing soprano saxophone and bass clarinet as well. - Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is a noted American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Parker's rhythmic and rapid playing style draws on the earlier innovations of be-bopper Charlie Parker (no relation), and Cannonball Adderley, mixed with Brown's own innovations in funk music. - Joe Temperley
Joe Temperley (born Lochgelly, Scotland, September 20, 1929) is a Scottish saxophonist. He has performed on various instruments but is most associated with the baritone saxophone. He began playing in local dance bands before moving to London and performing with Jack Parnell's band in the 1950s. After playing in various British jazz bands, such as that of Humphrey Lyttelton, Temperley moved to New York in the mid 1960s and performed with various big bands, … - Dave Koz
Dave Koz (March 27, 1963) is an American jazz saxophonist and radio host. Koz often draws comparisons to another well-known saxophonist, David Sanborn. Because the two sound almost alike, Koz is sometimes billed as "the second coming of Sanborn." Dave Koz usually plays soprano and alto saxophones, but sometimes plays tenor and occasionally baritone. - Serge Chaloff
Serge Chaloff (November 24, 1923-July 16, 1957) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, and the son of noted Boston piano teachers, Margaret Chaloff and Julius Chaloff. He is one of the few major jazz performers on his instrument, and the first major bebop performer, and was originally influenced by Charlie Parker. He first became well known as one of the "Four Brothers" reed section in Woody Herman's Second Herd. He also played with Boyd Raeburn, Georgie Auld, … - Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons (born January 11, 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American musician, best known as the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Known as "The Big Man", Clemons has been playing with Springsteen since 1972; his sax parts are an easily recognized feature of the E Street sound, with the most famous being his long elegiac solo during the song "Jungleland". With the band Clemons plays mostly tenor saxophone, … - Gigi Gryce
Gigi Gryce (b. George General Grice, Jr. in Pensacola, Florida, November 28, 1925; d. Pensacola, Florida, March 14, 1983) was an American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator. His performing career, though notable, was very short and, in comparison to other musicians of his generation, Gryce's work is little known. - David Newman
David "Fathead" Newman b. February 24, 1933 in Corsicana, Texas, is an American saxophonist. His professional career began in 1954 as an original member of Ray Charles' Band. Newman has had a prolific recording and performing career. Newman got his nickname in high school music class. Mr. Miller, his then music teacher, saw his music upside down on the stand, and knowing that Newman couldn't read music very well at the time, … - Nick Brignola
Nick Brignola(b. July 17, 1936; d. February 8, 2002) was a baritone saxophonist who also played alto or soprano at times. He is largely associated with hard bop. He began in music by playing clarinet at age eleven, but then added alto and tenor saxophone. He also learned flute in youth. - Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944, Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family. He soon settled primarily upon the alto saxophone and the flute. - Kenny Davern
John Kenneth Davern, better known as Kenny Davern, was one of the premier jazz clarinetists of his generation. He was born in Huntington, Long Island to a family of mixed Jewish and Irish-Catholic ancestry. His mother’s family originally came from Vienna, Austria, were his great-grandfather Alfred Roth had been a colonel in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry, the highest rank accessible to a Jew in the Habsburg Imperial army. - Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones (born November 12 1944) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for fronting the band, Booker T. and the MGs. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones was a child prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, and piano at school and serving as organist at his church. - Kevin Mahogany
Kevin Mahogany (born 1958 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American jazz vocalist prominent in the 1990's. During high school, he taught clarinet and was a featured baritone saxophonist and pianist in several jazz bands. He shifted his focus to singing while attending Baker University. - Kidd Jordan
Edward "Kidd" Jordan (b. Crowley, Louisiana, United States, May 5, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator from New Orleans, Louisiana. After completing a music degree at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he relocated to New Orleans. He taught at Southern University at New Orleans from 1974 to 2006. Jordan performs on tenor, baritone, soprano, alto, C-melody and sopranino saxophones, as well as contrabass and bass clarinets. - J. D. Parran
J. D. Parran is an American multi-woodwind player, educator, and composer specializing in jazz and free improvised music. He plays the soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophone, as well as the E-flat clarinet, clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, flute, piccolo, alto flute, bamboo flute, bamboo saxophone, and "nagaswaram". Parran possesses a virtuosic technique and mastery over a number of extended techniques for these instruments. - Stephen Kupka
Stephen "Doc" Kupka (a.k.a. "The Funky Doctor") is an American baritone saxophone player and composer, best known as a founding member of the band Tower of Power. In 1968 Kupka met tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo and joined his soul music cover band 'The Motowns,' based in Oakland, California. Kupka convinced Castillo to start performing original songs, and they changed the band's name to Tower of Power. The band recorded their first album, "East Bay Grease", … - Manny Albam
Manny Albam (born June 24, 1922 in Samana, Dominican Republic; died October 2, 2001 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA) was a jazz arranger, in his early career he also played baritone saxophone. He was born in the Dominican Republic, but grew up in New York City. His parents were Russian immigrants and he was born in the Dominican Republic as they were in route to the US. - Fred Ho
Fred Ho (Chinese name: 侯维翰; pinyin: Hóu Wéihàn; born Fred Wei-han Houn in Palo Alto, California, August 10, 1957) is an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. While he is sometimes associated with the Asian American jazz or avant-garde jazz movements, … - Charles Fowlkes
Charlie Fowlkes (16 February 1916-9 February 1980) was an American baritone saxophonist, best known for his time with Count Basie, which lasted for more than twenty-five years. Fowlkes was born in New York, and studied alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet, and violin before settling on the baritone sax (he also played occasional flute). He spent most of his early career in New York, playing with Tiny Bradshaw (1938-1944), Lionel Hampton (1944-1948), … - Leon Parker
Leon Parker (born August 21, 1965 in White Plains, New York) is a jazz drummer. He studied drums from age 11 and had classical training in his teens. He went on to study jazz under the tutelage of Barry Harris. His recording debut would be with Harvie S, His wife Lisa is a flautist and he had worked with her musically. He is also known for "paring down" his drum kit and in one case performed only with cymbals. His highest charting album might be 1998's "Awakening", … - St. Clair Pinckney
St. Clair Pinckney (1930-February, 1999) was a saxophonist who performed with James Brown as a member of the James Brown Orchestra and The J.B.'s. He played tenor and baritone saxophone. - John Linnell
John Sidney Linnell (born June 12th, 1959 ) is one half of rock duo They Might Be Giants . Linnell co-founded the band with John Flansburgh in the early eighties, and is a primary songwriter and singer for the duo. He generally plays accordion , baritone saxophone, and keyboard for the band. Before joining TMBG, Linnell claims to have been in a full-on jazz band called The Baggs , and was also in a New Wave band known as The Mundanes . - Chris Biscoe
Chris Biscoe (born February 5, 1947) is an English jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Pensford, Somerset, UK, a player of the alto, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, the alto clarinet, piccolo and flute. Biscoe is most notable for his work done with Mike Westbrook and the NYJO. From 1970 to 1973 Biscoe played with National Youth Jazz Orchestra in London, doing gigs with various other London based bands of that period. - James Fei
James Cheng Ting Fei (Chinese name: 費正廷; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngtíng; b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a composer and performer working in the fields of contemporary classical music and electronic music. He lives in the New York City area. He plays the soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones and bass clarinet. Recordings of his music have been released by the Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, and Organized Sound labels. - Skerik
Skerik (born Eric Walton) is a saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, Skerik is a pioneer in a playing style that has been dubbed saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critters Buggin (including Matt Chamberlain, Brad Houser and Mike Dillon) and Garage a Trois (including Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter and Mike Dillon; recently featuring Marco Benevento) and has been a member of, … - Dennis González
Dennis González is a jazz musician, poet, visual artist and music educator based in Dallas, Texas. González' primary musical instrument is the trumpet (including B♭, C, and pocket trumpets), though he has also played drums, flute, synthesizer, and baritone saxophone. The "All Music Guide" describes González' playing as falling "between advanced hard bop and free jazz." As of December 2006, González has released at least 28 albums under his own name. - Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch
Tulivu-Donna Lynn Cumberbatch, daughter of Harold Cumberbatch (the baritone saxophone player), is a jazz singer from Brooklyn, and has been compared to Bessie Smith, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughn, Gloria Lynn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Aretha Franklin in terms of her singing ability. Her African name "Tulivu" translates from Swahili loosely to "beautiful," and her English name, "Donna Lynn" is derived from "Donna Lee," the jazz piece made popular by Charlie Parker. - Karen Sharp
Karen Sharp is a musician most well known for her place in Humphrey Lyttelton's 8 piece Jazz band where she plays tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone and clarinet. She has released three albums under her own name - "Till There Was You" in 2002, "So Far So Good" in 2004, and "Wait And See" in 2007. - Alvin Tyler
Alvin "Red" Tyler was an American R&B and Neo-bop jazz saxophonist and arranger. After growing up to the sound of New Orleans’ marching bands, he began playing saxophone when in the navy, and by 1950 had joined Dave Bartholomew’s R&B band. He also played jazz in club jam sessions. He made his recording debut on Fats Domino’s “The Fat Man”, and went on to play on sessions for Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Aaron Neville, Lee Dorsey, Dr. John, … - Blaise Garza
Blaise Garrett Garza (born February 10, 1989 in Tampa Bay, Florida) is an American actor and musician. He played the role of Gregory Hudson on "Another World", a role he played from 1994 to 1996. An interesting fact about the circumstances of Garza's hiring is that it was the first audition he had ever been on and he was picked for his great attitude and personality as well as his maturity for his age. - Du Yinjiao
Du Yinjiao is a Chinese saxophonist. He began his musical career in a music regiment of the People's Liberation Army. In the 1980s he became interested in jazz music, which was at that time virtually unknown in China. In the face of official disapproval, he taught himself to play jazz by studying and transcribing contraband jazz tapes and books brought by foreigners from abroad. - Matthew Polashek
Matthew Polashek is a contemporary saxophonist living in the New York City area. His work focuses on the development of his own real-time computer-based interactive multimedia performance system. Polashek performs with his own group, the Matthew Polashek Exchange, and has performed and recorded with internationally renowned artists including David Liebman and Bryan Lynch. - Donald "duck" Dunn
Donald "Duck" Dunn (born November 24 1941) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn is regularly cited as one of the most influential music figures since the advent of the electric bass guitar.
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