List of jazz saxophonists, the Glossary

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1. 570 relations: Adrian Rollini, Ahmad Alaadeen, Al Cohn, Al Gallodoro, Alan Barnes (musician), Alan Skidmore, Albert Ayler, Alex Foster (musician), Alfred 23 Harth, Allen Eager, Alto saxophone, Amy Lee (saxophonist), Anat Cohen, André Roligheten, Andrew White (saxophonist), Andy McGhee, Andy Sheppard, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Ortega (musician), Anton Schwartz, Antonio Hart, Archie Shepp, Ari Brown, Arne Domnérus, Arnett Cobb, Art Pepper, Art Porter Jr., Art Themen, Arthur Blythe, Arun Luthra, Arvid Gram Paulsen, Atle Nymo, Azar Lawrence, Barbara Thompson (musician), Baritone saxophone, Barney Bigard, Barney Wilen, Børge-Are Halvorsen, Bebop, Ben Smith (musician), Ben Webster, Bendik Hofseth, Bennie Maupin, Bennie Wallace, Benny Carter, Benny Golson, Benny Goodman, Bernt Rosengren, Bheki Mseleku, Bill Easley, ... Expand index (520 more) »

2. Jazz saxophonists
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Adrian Rollini

Adrian Francis Rollini (June 28, 1903 – May 15, 1956) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily played the bass saxophone, piano, and vibraphone.

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Ahmad Alaadeen

Ahmad Alaadeen (July 24, 1934 – August 15, 2010) was an American jazz saxophonist and educator whose career spanned over six decades.

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Al Cohn

Al Cohn (November 24, 1925 – February 15, 1988) was an American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.

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Al Gallodoro

Alfred J. Gallodoro, (June 20, 1913 – October 4, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who performed from the 1920s up until his death.

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Alan Barnes (musician)

Alan Barnes (born 23 July 1959) is a multi-award winning English jazz saxophone and clarinet player.

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Alan Skidmore

Alan Richard James Skidmore (born 21 April 1942) is an English jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore.

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Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.

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Alex Foster (musician)

Alex Foster (born May 10, 1953) is an American jazz musician who plays alto and tenor saxophone.

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Alfred 23 Harth

Alfred Harth, now known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H, is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who creatively mixes genres.

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Allen Eager

Allen Eager (January 10, 1927 – April 13, 2003) was an American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist who also competed in auto racing and took part in LSD experiments.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.

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Amy Lee (saxophonist)

Amy Lee is an American saxophonist, composer and arranger.

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Anat Cohen

Anat Cohen (ענת כהן, born 1975) is a New York City-based jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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André Roligheten

André Roligheten (born 2 January 1985) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer, known from a series of recordings and bands like Albatrosh and Team Hegdal.

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Andrew White (saxophonist)

Andrew White (September 6, 1942 – November 11, 2020) was an American jazz and R&B multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, oboe and bass guitar), musicologist and publisher.

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Andy McGhee

Andy McGhee (November 3, 1927 – October 12, 2017) was a tenor saxophonist and educator.

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Andy Sheppard

Andy Sheppard (born 20 January 1957) is a British jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto.

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Anthony Ortega (musician)

Anthony Robert "Tony" Ortega (June 7, 1928 – October 30, 2022) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist.

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Anton Schwartz

Anton Schwartz (born July 16, 1967) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer based in Seattle, Washington and Oakland, California.

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Antonio Hart

Antonio Hart (born September 30, 1968) is a jazz alto saxophonist.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz.

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Ari Brown

Ari Brown (born February 1, 1944) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and pianist.

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Arne Domnérus

Sven Arne Domnérus (20 December 1924 – 2 September 2008) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Arnett Cobb

Arnett Cleophus Cobb (August 10, 1918 – March 24, 1989), accessed July 2010.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American jazz musician, most known as an alto saxophonist.

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Art Porter Jr.

Arthur Lee Porter Jr. (August 3, 1961 – November 23, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Art Themen

Arthur Edward George Themen (born 26 November 1939) is a British jazz saxophonist and formerly orthopaedic surgeon.

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Arthur Blythe

Arthur Murray Blythe (July 5, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer.

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Arun Luthra

Arun Luthra (Hindi: अरुण लूथरा; Punjabi: ਅਰੁਣ ਲੂਥਰਾ) is a saxophonist, konnakol artist, composer, and bandleader based in New York City.

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Arvid Gram Paulsen

Arvid Gram Paulsen (born 4 January 1922 in Kristiania – 11 April 1963) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and trumpet) and composer.

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Atle Nymo

Atle Nymo (born 9 June 1977) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet), and the younger brother of Jazz saxophonist Frode Nymo.

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Azar Lawrence

Azar Lawrence (born November 3, 1952) is an American jazz saxophonist, known for his contributions as sideman to McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw.

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Barbara Thompson (musician)

Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer.

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Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass.

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Barney Bigard

Albany Leon "Barney" Bigard (March 3, 1906 – June 27, 1980) was an American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington.

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Barney Wilen

Bernard "Barney" Jean Wilen (4 March 1937 – 25 May 1996) was a French tenor and soprano saxophonist and jazz composer.

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Børge-Are Halvorsen

Børge-Are Halvorsen (born 12 October 1978 in Lillehammer, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone and c- and alto flute).

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States.

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Ben Smith (musician)

Benjamin J. Smith (born March 1, 1905, date of death unknown) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Bendik Hofseth

Bendik Hofseth (born 19 October 1962, in Oslo) is a Norwegian jazz musician, who plays the saxophone and sings.

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Bennie Maupin

Bennie Maupin (born August 29, 1940) is an American jazz multireedist who performs on various saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet.

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Bennie Wallace

Bennie Wallace (born November 18, 1946) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".

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Bernt Rosengren

Bernt Åke Rosengren (24 December 1937 – 15 May 2023) was a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Bheki Mseleku

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku, generally known as Bheki Mseleku (3 March 1955 – 9 September 2008), was a jazz musician from South Africa.

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Bill Easley

Bill Easley (born January 13, 1946) is an American jazz musician who plays saxophone, flute, and clarinet.

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Bill Evans (saxophonist)

William D. Evans (born February 8, 1958) is an American jazz saxophonist, who was a member of the Miles Davis group in the 1980s and has since led several of his own bands, including Push and Soulgrass.

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Bill Graham (musician)

William Henry Graham (September 8, 1918 – December 29, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Bill Johnson (reed player)

William Luther Johnson (September 30, 1912 – July 5, 1960) was an American alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and arranger.

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Bill Perkins (saxophonist)

William Reese Perkins (–) was an American cool jazz saxophonist and flutist, popular on the West Coast jazz scene, known primarily as a tenor saxophonist.

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Bill Ramsay

William George "Rams" Ramsay (January 12, 1929 – March 3, 2024) was an American jazz saxophonist and band leader based in Seattle.

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Bill Smith (Canadian musician)

William Ernest Smith (usually called Bill Smith) (born 12 May 1938) is a Canadian writer, editor, record producer, saxophonist, and clarinetist of English birth.

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Billy Harper

Billy Harper (born January 17, 1943) is an American jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.

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Bjarne Nerem

Bjarne Arnulf Nerem (31 July 1923 in Oslo, Norway – 1 April 1991 in Oslo), was a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone and clarinet) among the foremost soloists in Norwegian jazz.

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Bjørn Johansen (musician)

Bjørn John Johansen (23 May 1940 – 6 May 2002) was a Norwegian jazz musician (baritone, tenor & alto saxophones, clarinet and flute), known from a number of recordings and international cooperation.

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Bjørn Kruse

Bjørn Howard Kruse (born 14 August 1946) is a Norwegian painter and composer.

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Bob Belden

James Robert Belden (October 31, 1956 – May 20, 2015) was an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer.

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Bob Berg

Robert Berg (April 7, 1951 – December 5, 2002) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Bob Cooper (musician)

Bob Cooper (December 6, 1925 – August 5, 1993) was a West Coast jazz musician known primarily for playing tenor saxophone, but also for being one of the first to play jazz solos on oboe.

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Bob Downes

Robert George Downes (born 22 July 1937 in Plymouth) is an English avant-garde jazz flautist and saxophonist.

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Bob Franceschini

Bob Franceschini (born 1961) is an American jazz saxophonist and instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger.

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Bob Mintzer

Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader.

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Bob Rockwell

Bob Rockwell (born May 1945 in Miami, Oklahoma) is a jazz saxophonist.

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Bobby Plater

Robert C. Plater (May 13, 1914, Newark, New Jersey - November 20, 1982, Lake Tahoe) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

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Bobby Watson

Robert Michael Watson Jr. (born August 23, 1953), known professionally as Bobby Watson, is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator.

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Bobby Wellins

Robert Coull Wellins (24 January 1936 – 27 October 2016) was a Scottish tenor saxophonist who collaborated with Stan Tracey on the album Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" (1965).

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Bodil Niska

Bodil Aileen Niska (born 21 August 1954 in Vadsø, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist known for her recordings of jazz standards.

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Boney James

Boney James (born James Oppenheim September 1, 1961) is an American saxophonist (tenor, alto and soprano), songwriter, record producer and recording artist.

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Booker Ervin

Booker Telleferro Ervin II (October 31, 1930 – August 31, 1970) was an American tenor saxophone player.

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Boots Mussulli

Henry "Boots" Mussulli (November 18, 1915 in Milford, Massachusetts – September 23, 1967 in Norfolk, Massachusetts) was an Italian-American jazz saxophonist, based chiefly out of Boston.

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Boots Randolph

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax", which became the signature tune of The Benny Hill Show.

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Bootsie Barnes

Robert "Bootsie" Barnes (November 27, 1937 – April 22, 2020) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Boyce Brown

Boyce Brown (April 16, 1910 – January 30, 1959) was an American jazz dixieland alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.

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Boyd Raeburn

Boyd Albert Raeburn (October 27, 1913 – August 2, 1966) was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.

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Brandon Fields (musician)

Brandon Fields (born 1958) is a saxophonist, flutist, and clarinetist from Indiana.

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Branford Marsalis

Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Brent Gallaher

Brent Christopher Gallaher (born May 13, 1969, in Cumberland, Maryland) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Brian Landrus

Brian Landrus (born September 14, 1978) is a jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and educator.

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Brian Morton (Scottish writer)

Brian Morton (born 1954) is a Scottish writer, journalist and former broadcaster, specialising in jazz and modern literature.

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Bruno Romani

Bruno Romani (Udine, 9 January 1960) is an Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer.

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Bud Freeman

Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing tenor saxophone, but also the clarinet.

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Bud Shank

Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist.

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Budd Johnson

Albert J. "Budd" Johnson III (December 14, 1910 – October 20, 1984) was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who worked extensively with, among others, Ben Webster, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Billie Holiday and, especially, Earl Hines.

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Buddy Collette

William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American jazz flutist, saxophonist, and clarinetist.

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Buddy Featherstonhaugh

Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh (4 October 1909 – 12 July 1976) was an English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Buddy Tate

George Holmes "Buddy" Tate (February 22, 1913 – February 10, 2001) was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Bunky Green

Vernice "Bunky" Green Jr (born April 23, 1935) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and educator.

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Buster Bailey

William C. "Buster" Bailey (July 19, 1902 – April 12, 1967) was an American jazz clarinetist.

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Buster Smith

Henry Franklin "Buster" Smith (August 24, 1904 – August 10, 1991), also known as Professor Smith, was an American jazz alto saxophonist and mentor to Charlie Parker.

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Candy Dulfer

Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist.

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Cannonball Adderley

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Captain John Handy

Captain John Handy (June 24, 1900 – January 12, 1971), was an American jazz alto saxophonist, who was part of the New Orleans jazz revival.

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Carlos Garnett

Carlos Garnett (December 1, 1938 - March 3, 2023) was a Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist.

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Carol Sudhalter

Carol Stearns Sudhalter (January 5, 1943) is an American Jazz saxophonist.

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Carolyn Breuer

Carolyn Breuer (born 4 July 1969) is a German jazz saxophonist (alto and soprano).

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Carter Jefferson

Carter Jefferson (1946 – 9 December 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Céline Bonacina

Céline Bonacina (born 23 July 1975 in Belfort, France) is a French saxophonist and composer. She plays soprano, alto and baritone saxophone.

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Cecil Payne

Cecil Payne (December 14, 1922 – November 27, 2007) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn, New York.

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Charles Brackeen

Charles Brackeen (March 13, 1940, in Eufaula, Oklahoma, United States – November 5, 2021, Carson, California) was an American jazz saxophonist who primarily played tenor saxophone, but also played soprano saxophone.

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Charles Fowlkes

Charles Baker Fowlkes (February 16, 1916 – February 9, 1980) was an American baritone saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra for over twenty-five years.

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Charles Gayle

Charles Gayle (February 28, 1939 – September 7, 2023) was an American free jazz musician.

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Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)

Charles Lloyd (born March 15, 1938) is an American jazz musician.

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Charles McPherson (musician)

Charles McPherson (born July 24, 1939) is an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Joplin, Missouri, United States; raised in Detroit, Michigan; and now lives in San Diego, California.

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Charley Langer

Charley Langer is an American smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter.

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Charlie Barnet

Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Charlie Holmes

Charlie Holmes (January 27, 1910 near Boston, Massachusetts – September 19, 1985 in Stoughton, Massachusetts) was an American alto jazz saxophonist of the swing era.

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Charlie Mariano

Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz saxophonist who focused on the alto and soprano saxophone.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer.

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Charlie Rouse

Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 – November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman (born Earl Lavon Freeman Jr.; July 17, 1949) is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman.

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Chris Biscoe

Chris Biscoe (born 5 February 1947, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England) is an English jazz multi-instrumentalist, a player of the alto, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, the alto clarinet, piccolo and flute.

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Chris Cheek

Christopher Carson Cheek (born September 16, 1968) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)

Chris Potter (born January 1, 1971) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Chromaticism

Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale.

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Chu Berry

Leon Brown "Chu" Berry (September 13, 1908 – October 30, 1941) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist during the 1930s.

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Cliff Townshend

Clifford Blandford Townshend (28 January 1916 – 29 June 1986) was an English jazz musician who played saxophone in the Royal Air Force Dance Orchestra, popularly known as The Squadronaires.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Consonance and dissonance

In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.

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Courtney Pine

Courtney Pine, (born 18 March 1964), is a British jazz musician, who was the principal founder in the 1980s of the black British band the Jazz Warriors.

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Craig Handy

Craig Mitchell Handy (born September 25, 1962) is an American tenor saxophonist.

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Curtis Amy

Curtis Edward Amy (October 11, 1927 – June 5, 2002) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow (born Sydney, Australia, 25 December 1959) is a jazz saxophonist, flute player and composer.

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Daniel Bennett (saxophonist)

Daniel Bennett (born November 27, 1979) is an American saxophonist, based in Manhattan, who is best known for his folk jazz music.

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Daniel Zamir

Daniel Zamir (דניאל זמיר; born 1980 in Petah Tikva) is an Israeli saxophonist and singer. List of jazz saxophonists and Daniel Zamir are jazz saxophonists.

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Dave Koz

David Stephen Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American saxophonist, composer, record producer, and radio personality based in California.

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Dave Liebman

David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist, flautist and jazz educator.

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David "Fathead" Newman

David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s and early 1960s recordings by Ray Charles.

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David Binney

David Binney (born August 2, 1961) is an American alto saxophonist and composer.

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David Murray (saxophonist)

David Keith Murray (born February 19, 1955) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who performs mostly on tenor and bass clarinet.

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David S. Ware

David Spencer Ware (November 7, 1949 – October 18, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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David Sanborn

David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist.

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David Sánchez (musician)

David Sánchez (born 3 September 1968 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) is a Grammy-winning jazz tenor saxophonist from Puerto Rico.

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David Schnitter

David Schnitter (born March 19, 1948, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Dayna Stephens

Dayna Stephens (born August 1, 1978) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Derek Humble

Derek Humble (March 1930 – 22 February 1971) was an English jazz alto saxophonist.

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Derek Pascoe

Derek Pascoe (born 1957) is a British musician now based in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Dewey Redman

Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.

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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Dick Morrissey

Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer.

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Dick Oatts

Richard Dennis Oatts (born April 2, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator.

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Didier Malherbe

Didier Malherbe (born January 22, 1943, in Paris), is a French jazz, rock and world music musician, known as a member of the bands Gong and Hadouk, as well as a poet.

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Don Braden

Donald Kirk Braden (born November 20, 1963) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Don Byas

Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (October 21, 1913 – August 24, 1972) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing and bebop.

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Don Lanphere

Donald Gale Lanphere (June 26, 1928 – October 9, 2003) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, known for his 1940s and 1950s work, and recordings with Fats Navarro (in 1948), Woody Herman (1949), Claude Thornhill, Sonny Dunham, Billy May, and Charlie Barnet.

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Don Menza

Don Menza (born April 22, 1936) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Don Redman

Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer.

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Don Weller (musician)

Donald Arthur Albert Weller (19 December 1940 – 30 May 2020) was an English jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and composer.

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Donald Harrison

Donald Harrison Jr. (born June 23, 1960) is an African-American jazz saxophonist and the Big Chief of The Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Donny McCaslin

Donald Paul McCaslin (born August 11, 1966) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Doudou Gouirand

Doudou Gouirand (born April 28, 1940) is a French jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Doug Webb

Doug Webb (born 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Dudu Pukwana

Mthutuzeli Dudu Pukwana (18 July 1938 – 30 June 1990) was a South African saxophonist and composer.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.

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Earl Bostic

Eugene Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913 – October 28, 1965) was an American alto saxophonist.

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Earle Warren

Earle Warren (born Earl Ronald Warren; July 1, 1914 – June 4, 1994) was an American saxophonist.

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Ed Calle

Ed Calle (born Eduardo J. Calle) is a musician from Miami, Florida.

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Ed Summerlin

Edgar Eugene Summerlin (September 1, 1928 – October 10, 2006) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for pioneering Liturgical jazz, avant-garde jazz, and free jazz.

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Ed Wiley Jr.

Ed Wiley Jr. (March 14, 1930 – September 27, 2010) was an American tenor saxophonist whose big sound and soulful expression helped lay the foundation for early blues, R&B and what would later come to be known as “rock-and-roll” music.

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Ed Xiques

Edward Fabian "Ed" Xiques, Jr. (born October 9, 1939 – December 4, 2020) was an American jazz saxophonist. List of jazz saxophonists and Ed Xiques are jazz saxophonists.

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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Eddie Barefield

Edward Emanuel Barefield (December 12, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger most noteworthy for his work with Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington.

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Eddie Daniels

Eddie Daniels (born October 19, 1941) is an American musician and composer.

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Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris (October 20, 1934 – November 5, 1996) was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone.

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Eddie Vinson

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.

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Edgar Sampson

Edgar Melvin Sampson (October 31, 1907 – January 16, 1973), nicknamed "The Lamb", was an American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist.

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Eirik Hegdal

Eirik Hegdal (born 3 October 1973 in Gjøvik, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone), composer, arranger and music teacher, known from the band Dingobats (1995-2005) and as leader of Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (from 2002).

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Eli Bennett

Eli Bennett (born March 9, 1989) is a Canadian Juno Award-nominated jazz saxophonist and Leo Award-winning film composer. List of jazz saxophonists and Eli Bennett are jazz saxophonists.

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Eli Degibri

Eli Degibri (Hebrew: אלי דג'יברי) (born May 3, 1978, in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Elisabeth Lid Trøen

Elisabeth Lid Trøen (born 15 March 1992 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, and composer.

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Ellery Eskelin

Ellery Eskelin (born August 16, 1959) is an American tenor saxophonist raised in Baltimore, Maryland and residing in New York City.

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Elton Dean

Elton Dean (28 October 1945 – 8 February 2006) was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally keyboards.

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Eric Alexander (jazz saxophonist)

Eric Alexander (born August 4, 1968) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator.

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Eric Darius

Eric Darius (born December 3, 1982), is an American saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and educator.

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Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.

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Eric Kloss

Eric Kloss (born April 3, 1949) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Eric Marienthal

Eric Marienthal (born December 19, 1957) is a Grammy Award-nominated Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and pop genres.

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Eric Person

Eric Person (born May 2, 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American alto and soprano saxophone player and leader of Meta-Four and Metamorphosis.

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Erica Lindsay

Erica Lindsay (born June 5, 1955 in San Francisco, California, United States) is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.

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Erik Balke

Erik Balke (born 7 November 1953) Store Norske Leksikon is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), known as leader of the "Lille Frøen Saksofonkvartett" with Vidar Johansen, Arne Frang and Odd Riisnæs/Tore Brunborg/Olav Dale, as member of his younger brother Jon Balke's early orchestras, and for cooperations with Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Per Jørgensen, Audun Kleive, Nils Petter Molvær, Torbjørn Sunde, Tore Brunborg, Paolo Vinaccia, and Bugge Wesseltoft.

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Ernie Henry

Ernie Henry (born Ernest Albert Henry, September 3, 1926 – December 29, 1957) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Ernie Watts

Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is a Grammy-winning American jazz and R&B saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone.

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Euge Groove

Steven Eugene Grove (born November 27, 1962), better known as Euge Groove, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

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Evan Parker

Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.

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Everette Harp

Everette Harp (born August 17, 1961, in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz saxophonist who has recorded for Blue Note, Capitol and Shanachie Records.

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Fabrizio Cassol

Fabrizio Cassol (born 8 June 1964) is a Belgian saxophonist and the first user of the aulochrome (a double-reed instrument).

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Fela Kuti

Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) was a Nigerian musician and political activist.

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Flip Phillips

Joseph Edward Filippelli (March 26, 1915 – August 17, 2001), known professionally as Flip Phillips, was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.

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Frank Foster (jazz musician)

Frank Benjamin Foster III (September 23, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer.

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Frank Morgan (musician)

Frank Morgan (December 23, 1933 – December 14, 2007) was a jazz saxophonist with a career spanning more than 50 years.

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Frank Strozier

Frank R. Strozier Jr. (born June 13, 1937) is a jazz alto saxophonist.

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Frank Teschemacher

Frank Teschemacher (March 13, 1906 – March 1, 1932) was an American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist, associated with the "Austin High" gang (along with Jimmy McPartland, Bud Freeman and others).

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Frank Wess

Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist.

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Frankie Trumbauer

Orie Frank Trumbauer (May 30, 1901 – June 11, 1956) was an American jazz saxophonist of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Fraser MacPherson

John Fraser MacPherson CM (10 April 1928 – 27 September 1993) was a Canadian jazz musician from Saint Boniface, Manitoba.

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Frøy Aagre

Frøy Aagre (born 8 June 1977 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist.

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Fred Anderson (musician)

Fred Anderson (March 22, 1929 – June 24, 2010) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Fred Ho

Fred Ho (born Fred Wei-han Houn; August 10, 1957 – April 12, 2014) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer and Marxist social activist.

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Fred Lipsius

Fred Lipsius (born 19 November 1943 in the Bronx) is an American musician who is the original saxophonist and arranger for the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, for which he played alto saxophone and piano.

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Free jazz

Free jazz, or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.

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Frode Gjerstad

Frode Gjerstad (born 24 March 1948) is a Norwegian jazz musician with alto saxophone as principal instrument, but he also plays other saxophones, clarinet, and flute.

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Frode Nymo

Frode Nymo (born 27 November 1975), is a Norwegian jazz musician (alto Saxophone), and older brother of the tenor sax.

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Gabe Baltazar

Gabriel Ruiz Hiroshi Baltazar Jr. (November 1, 1929 – June 12, 2022) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and woodwind doubler.

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Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940, in Baltimore) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Gary Foster (musician)

Norman Gary Foster (born May 25, 1936) is an American musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute.

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Gary Keller (saxophonist)

Gary Keller (born October 7, 1953) is a jazz and classical saxophonist, recording artist, a lecturer at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and a Conn-Selmer Artist.

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Gary Smulyan

Gary Smulyan (born April 4, 1956) is a jazz musician who plays baritone saxophone.

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Gary Thomas (musician)

Gary Thomas (born June 10, 1961) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist, born in Baltimore, Maryland. List of jazz saxophonists and Gary Thomas (musician) are jazz saxophonists.

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Gato Barbieri

Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016) was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of the 1970s.

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Geir Lysne

Geir Øystein Lysne (born 9 October 1965 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composer, arranger) and a famous Big Band leader.

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Gene Allen (musician)

Eugene Sufana Allen (December 5, 1928 – February 14, 2008) was an American jazz reedist, who primarily played baritone saxophone and bass clarinet.

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Gene Ammons

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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George Adams (musician)

George Rufus Adams (April 29, 1940 – November 14, 1992) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.

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George Braith

George Braith (born George Braithwaite on June 26, 1939) is a soul-jazz saxophonist from New York.

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George Coleman

George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.

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George Howard (jazz)

George Howard (September 15, 1956 – March 20, 1998) was an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

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George Paxton

George Paxton (March 24, 1914 – April 19, 1989) was an American big band leader, saxophonist, arranger, and publisher during the 1930s and 1940s.

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George Young (saxophonist)

George Ernest Young (10 July 1937)Feather, Leonard; Ira Gitler.

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Georgie Auld

Georgie Auld (May 19, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was a jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.

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Gerald Albright

Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Gerd Dudek

Gerhard Rochus "Gerd" Dudek (28 September 1938 – 3 November 2022) was a German jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Getatchew Mekurya

Getatchew Mekurya (Amharic: ጌታቸው መኩሪያ; 14 March 1935 – 4 April 2016) was an Ethiopian jazz saxophonist.

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Gigi Gryce

Gigi Gryce (born George General Grice Jr.; November 28, 1925 – March 17, 1983), later in life changing his name to Basheer Qusim, was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.

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Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Atzmon (גלעד עצמון,; born 9 June 1963) is an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer.

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Gordon Brisker

Gordon Brisker (November 6, 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio – September 10, 2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Graeme Lyall

Graeme William Lyall (AM), is an Australian saxophonist, composer and arranger.

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Graham Bond

Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October 1937 – 8 May 1974) was an English rock/blues musician and vocalist, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s.

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Greg Abate

Greg Abate (born May 31, 1947)Yanow, Scott "", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-02-05 is a jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger.

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Greg Osby

Greg Osby (born August 3, 1960) is an American saxophonist and composer. List of jazz saxophonists and Greg Osby are jazz saxophonists.

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Grover Washington Jr.

Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk and soul-jazz saxophonist and Grammy Award winner.

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Guttorm Guttormsen

Guttorm Guttormsen (born 28 June 1950) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone), arranger and composer.

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Guy Sion

Guy Sion (born 1980 in Israel) is an Israeli jazz saxophonist, residing in Oslo, Norway.

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Hal McKusick

Hal McKusick (June 1, 1924 – April 11, 2012) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who worked with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949.

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Hal Stein

Harold Jerome Stein (September 5, 1928 in Weehawken, New Jersey – April 27, 2008 in Oakland, California) was an American jazz musician and bebop saxophone player.

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Hamiet Bluiett

Hamiet Bluiett (September 16, 1940 – October 4, 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. (December 21, 1934 – January 29, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist, pianist, arranger and songwriter whose genres ranged from R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, and soul jazz.

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Hank Mobley

Henry Mobley (July 7, 1930 – May 30, 1986) was an American tenor saxophonist and composer.

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Hanna Paulsberg

Hanna Paulsberg (born 13 November 1987 in Rygge, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone) and composer.

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Hans Dulfer

Hans Dulfer (born 28 May 1940) is a Dutch jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone.

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Harald Lassen

Harald Lassen (born March 13, 1987, in Kristiansand, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

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Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

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Harold Ashby

Harold Ashby (March 27, 1925, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States – June 13, 2003, in New York City) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Harold Land

Harold de Vance Land (December 18, 1928 – July 27, 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist.

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Harold Vick

Harold Vick (April 3, 1936 – November 13, 1987) was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Harry Allen (musician)

Harry Allen (born October 12, 1966) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Washington, D.C. Allen plays maintream jazz and bossa nova.

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Harry Carney

Harry Howell Carney (April 1, 1910 – October 8, 1974) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinettist who spent over four decades as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

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Harry Gold (musician)

Harry Gold (26 February 1907 – 13 November 2005), born Hyman Goldberg, was an English British Dixieland jazz saxophonist and bandleader.

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Håkon Kornstad

Håkon Games Kornstad (born 5 April 1977 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, flute and live looping) and classically trained singer (tenor), known from bands such as Wibutee and Kornstad Trio, and collaborations with musicians such as Ketil Bjørnstad, Anja Garbarek, Live Maria Roggen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Eilertsen, Knut Reiersrud, Jon Christensen, Eivind Aarset, and Pat Metheny.

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Håvard Fossum

Håvard Fossum (born 7 June 1971 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and flute), composer and arranger, situated in Oslo since January 2000.

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Håvard Lund

Håvard Lund (born 20 October 1970 in Gildeskål, Norway), is a Norwegian jazz musician (clarinet and saxophone) and composer, known from a series of recordings and collaborations with musicians like Anja Garbarek, Vigleik Storaas, Steinar Raknes, Håkon Mjåset Johansen, Farmers Market, Frode Fjellheims Jazzjoik Ensemble, later to become Transjoik, Trygve Seim Ensemble and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

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Helén Eriksen

Helén Eriksen (born 19 October 1971 in Dale, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and vocals), songwriter and music arranger.

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Henning Gravrok

Henning Gravrok (born 19 March 1948 in Tovik, Northern Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and music teacher, raised in Harstad and educated as teacher.

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Herb Geller

Herbert Arnold Geller (November 2, 1928 – December 19, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.

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Herschel Evans

Herschel "Tex" Evans (9 March 1909 – 9 February 1939) was an American tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra.

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Hilton Jefferson

Hilton Jefferson (July 30, 1903 – November 14, 1968) was an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States, perhaps best known for leading the saxophone section from 1940 to 1949 in the Cab Calloway band.

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Houston Person

Houston Person (born November 10, 1934) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer.

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Iain Ballamy

Iain Ballamy (born 20 February 1964) is a British composer and saxophonist.

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Igor Butman

Igor Butman PAR is a Russian jazz saxophonist born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1961.

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Ike Quebec

Ike Abrams Quebec (August 17, 1918 – January 16, 1963) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Illinois Jacquet

Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (October 30, 1922 – July 22, 2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo.

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Ivy Benson

Ivy Benson (11 November 1913 – 6 May 1993) was an English musician and bandleader, who led an all-female swing band.

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J. R. Monterose

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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Jackiem Joyner

Jackiem Joyner (born February 9, 1980) is a smooth jazz saxophonist and flutist from Norfolk, Virginia, US.

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James Carter (musician)

James Carter (born January 3, 1969) is an American jazz musician widely recognized for his technical virtuosity on saxophones and a variety of woodwinds.

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James Moody (saxophonist)

James Moody (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2010) was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles.

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James Spaulding

James Ralph Spaulding Jr. (was born July 30, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist.

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Jan Garbarek

Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music.

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Jan Kåre Hystad

Jan Kåre "Hysen" Hystad (born 9 July 1955) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet, flute), and the older brother of jazz saxophonist Ole Jacob Hystad.

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Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski

Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski (27 March 1936 – 7 May 2024) was a Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger.

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Jane Bunnett

Mary Jane Bunnett, (born October 22, 1956) is a Canadian musician and educator.

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Jane Ira Bloom

Jane Ira Bloom (born January 12, 1955) is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.

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Jaroslav Jakubovič

Jaroslav Jakubovič (born 1948) is a Czech-born Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and record producer.

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Javon Jackson

Javon Anthony Jackson (born June 16, 1965) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and educator.

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Jay Beckenstein

Jay Barnet Beckenstein (born May 14, 1951) is an American saxophonist, composer, producer, and the co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jazz fusion

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Jørgen Mathisen

Jørgen Mathisen (born 27 December 1984 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), the younger brother of Martin Mathisen (b. 1978), and known from different bands, and a series of recordings with musician like Marc Lohr, Per Zanussi, Steinar Raknes, Eirik Hegdal, Gard Nilssen, and Kjetil Møster.

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Jean-Louis Chautemps

Jean-Louis Chautemps (6 August 1931 – 25 May 2022) was a French jazz saxophonist.

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Jeff Clayton

Jeff Clayton (February 16, 1954 – December 16, 2020) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.

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Jeff Coffin

Jeff Stanley Coffin (born August 5, 1965) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator.

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Jeff Kashiwa

Jeff Kashiwa is an American saxophonist with the smooth jazz band the Rippingtons and one of three with the Sax Pack, as well as having recorded several albums under his own name.

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Jeff Rupert

Jeff Rupert (born September 6, 1964) is an American jazz saxophonist and professor at the University of Central Florida.

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Jerome Don Pasquall

Jerome Don Pasquall (September 20, 1902 – October 18, 1971) was an American jazz reed player.

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Jerome Richardson

Jerome Richardson (December 25, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician and woodwind player.

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Jerry Bergonzi

Jerry Bergonzi (born October 21, 1947) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator.

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Jesse Davis (saxophonist)

Jesse Davis (born September 11, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Jessy J

Jessica Arellano (born December 20, 1982) known professionally as Jessy J, is an American saxophonist.

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Jim Galloway

James Braidie Galloway (28 July 1936 – 30 December 2014) was a jazz clarinet and saxophone player.

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Jim Riggs

James Garland Riggs (born July 28, 1941) is an American saxophonist in classical and jazz idioms, big band director, collegiate music educator, and international music clinician.

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Jim Snidero

James J. Snidero (born May 29, 1958, in Redwood City, California, United States) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Jimmy Dorsey

James Francis Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader.

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Jimmy Forrest (musician)

James Robert Forrest Jr. (January 24, 1920 – August 26, 1980) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone throughout his career.

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Jimmy Giuffre

James Peter Giuffre (April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Jimmy Greene

James Sidney Greene, Jr. (born February 24, 1975) is an American jazz saxophonist, gospel musician, recording artist, record producer, and music professor.

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Jimmy Heath

James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader.

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Jimmy Lyons

Jimmy Lyons (December 1, 1931 – May 19, 1986) was an American alto saxophone player.

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Joe Darensbourg

Joe Darensbourg (July 9, 1906 – May 24, 1985) was an American, New Orleans-based jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, notable for his work with Buddy Petit, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Creath, Fate Marable, Andy Kirk, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone, Joe Liggins and Louis Armstrong.

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Joe Farrell

Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily performed as a saxophonist and flutist.

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Joe Garland

Joseph Copeland Garland (August 15, 1903, Norfolk, Virginia – April 21, 1977, Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for writing "In the Mood".

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Joe Harriott

Joseph Arthurlin Harriott (15 July 1928 – 2 January 1973) was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone.

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Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)"Joe Lovano." Contemporary Musicians.

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Joe Maini

Joe Maini (February 8, 1930 – May 7, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

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Joe Riposo

Joseph Riposo is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and was an educator at Syracuse University.

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Joe Rushton

Joe Rushton (November 7, 1907 – March 2, 1964) was an American jazz bass saxophonist.

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Joe Temperley

Joe Temperley (20 September 1929 – 11 May 2016) was a Scottish jazz saxophonist.

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Joel Frahm

Joel Frahm (born 1970) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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John Barnes (musician)

John Barnes (15 May 1932 – 18 April 2022) was a British jazz saxophonist and clarinettist, who played New Orleans-styled jazz in his early career, but later also played saxophones in the mainstream style.

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John Butcher (musician)

John Butcher (born 1954) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.

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John Dankworth

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores.

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John Gilmore (musician)

John Gilmore (September 28, 1931 – August 20, 1995) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.

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John Handy

John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933) is an American jazz musician most commonly associated with the alto saxophone.

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John Jenkins (jazz musician)

John Jenkins (January 3, 1931 – July 12, 1993) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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John Klemmer

John T. Klemmer (born July 3, 1946) is an American saxophonist, composer, songwriter, and arranger.

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John Pål Inderberg

John Pål Inderberg (born 6 August 1950 Steinkjer, Norway) is a versatile saxophonist and one of the leading traditional musicians in Norway.

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John Stubblefield

John Stubblefield (February 4, 1945 – July 4, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist.

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John Surman

John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music.

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John Tchicai

John Martin Tchicai (28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category".

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Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was an American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist based in New Orleans, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong.

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Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Johnny Hodges

Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.

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Jorge Pardo (musician)

Jorge Pardo is a Spanish flautist and saxophonist born 1 December 1956 in Madrid, known for the albums he released for Milestone Records in the 1990s.

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Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937 – January 9, 2019) was an American jazz musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest.

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Josephine Alexandra Mitchell

Josephine Alexandra Mitchell (22 July 1903 – 23 November 1995) was Ireland's first female professional saxophonist.

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Joshua Redman

Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Juli Wood

Juli Wood is a Finnish-American saxophonist, vocalist, composer, and band-leader from Chicago, who appears regularly in Chicago and Milwaukee area jazz clubs, on tours through the Midwest with the Juli Wood Quartet, and other groups she leads or is a part of.

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Julian Argüelles

Julian Argüelles (born 28 January 1966) is an English jazz saxophonist.

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Julian Dash

Julian Dash (April 9, 1916 – February 25, 1974) was an American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, probably better known for his work with Erskine Hawkins and Buck Clayton.

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Julius Hemphill

Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player.

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Junior Cook

Herman "Junior" Cook (July 22, 1934 – February 3, 1992) was an American hard bop tenor saxophone player.

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Justin Chart

Justin Chart (born) is an American singer-songwriter and jazz musician.

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Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (March 24, 1936 – November 9, 2013), Nytimes.com was an American free jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington (born February 18, 1981) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Kaori Kobayashi

, is a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Karl Seglem

Karl Seglem (born 8 July 1961 in Årdalstangen, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone and bukkehorn), composer and producer, known from a series of combined jazz and traditional music releases, as well as leading his own record label NorCD from 1991.

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Kåre Kolve

Kåre Kolve (born 10 August 1964) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), and the older brother of the vibraphonist Ivar Kolve.

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Kenny Davern

John Kenneth Davern (January 7, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American jazz clarinetist.

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Kenny G

Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5, 1956), known professionally as Kenny G, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist, composer, and producer.

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Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett (born October 9, 1960) is an American post-bop jazz musician and composer who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and for his time with Miles Davis's band.

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Kidd Jordan

Edward "Kidd" Jordan (Crowley, May 5, 1935 – April 7, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and music educator from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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King Curtis

Curtis Ousley (born Curtis Montgomery; February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), known professionally as King Curtis, was an American saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll.

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Kirk Whalum

Kirk Whalum (born July 11, 1958) is an American R&B and smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter.

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Kjell Bartholdsen

Kjell Bartholdsen (2 October 1938 in Hammerfest – 6 November 2009) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), that lived in Bodø from 1968.

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Kjetil Møster

Kjetil Traavik Møster (born 17 June 1976) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet) and composer, known from bands like The Core, Ultralyd, Brat, Zanussi 5, and performance with Chick Corea at Moldejazz 2000, later released on CD.

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Klaus Doldinger

Klaus Doldinger (born 12 May 1936) is a German saxophonist known for his work in jazz and as a film music composer.

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Knut Riisnæs

Knut Riisnæs (13 November 1945 – 22 July 2023) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and flute), arranger, and composer, son of pianist Eline Nygaard Riisnæs and brother of classical pianist Anne Eline Riisnæs (1951–) and jazz saxophonist Odd Riisnæs (1953–).

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Kristian Bergheim

Kristian Bergheim (6 June 1926 in Bærum – 30 May 2010) was a noted saxophonist, considered one of the few in Norway of international caliber.

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Kristin Sevaldsen

Kristin Sevaldsen (born 10 January 1966 in Lillehammer, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone), composer, and music producer.

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Lanny Morgan

Lanny Morgan (born March 30, 1934, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American jazz alto saxophonist chiefly active on the West Coast jazz scene.

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Lars Gullin

Lars Gunnar Victor Gullin (4 May 1928 – 17 May 1976) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist.

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Lars Horntveth

Lars Horntveth (born 10 March 1980 in Tønsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (saxophones, clarinet, percussion and guitar), band leader, and composer.

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Lee Konitz

Leon "Lee" Konitz (October 13, 1927 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer.

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Lem Davis

Lemuel A. Davis (22 June 1914 – 16 January 1970), was an American jazz alto saxophonist associated with swing music.

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Lennie Niehaus

Leonard Niehaus (June 1, 1929 – May 28, 2020) was an American alto saxophonist, composer and arranger on the West Coast jazz scene.

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Leo Parker

Leo Parker (April 18, 1925 – February 11, 1962) was an American jazz musician, who primarily played baritone saxophone.

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Leo Wright

Leo Wright (December 14, 1933 in Wichita Falls, Texas – January 4, 1991 in Vienna) was an American jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and clarinet.

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Lester Young

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

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Lindsay Cooper

Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer.

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Lol Coxhill

George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist.

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Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is an American retired jazz alto saxophonist.

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Lou Gare

Leslie Arthur "Lou" Gare (16 June 1939 – 6 October 2017) was a British free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, perhaps best known for his works with the improvised music ensemble AMM and playing with musicians such as Eddie Prévost, Mike Westbrook, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe and Sam Richards.

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Lou Marini

Louis William Marini Jr. (born May 13, 1945), known as "Blue Lou" Marini, is an American saxophonist, arranger, and composer.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Luciano Caruso (composer)

Luciano Caruso (born 19 July 1957, in Turin, Italy) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.

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Luis Nubiola

Luis Nubiola (born May 28, 1974) is a Cuban-born jazz saxophonist, composer and teacher.

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Lukas Zabulionis

Lukas Zabulionis (born 6 March 1992 in Lithuania) is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer of Lithuanian origin, residing in Sandefjord, Norway.

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Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s and Prince in the 2000s.

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Maciej Obara

Maciej Obara (born 18 December 1981) is a Polish jazz musician (alto and tenor saxophone), composer and bandleader. List of jazz saxophonists and Maciej Obara are jazz saxophonists.

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Mario Bauzá

Prudencio Mario Bauzá Cárdenas (April 28, 1911 – July 11, 1993) was an Afro-Cuban jazz, and jazz musician.

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Mario Schiano

Mario Schiano (20 July 1933 in Naples – 10 May 2008 in Rome) was an Italian alto saxophonist and soprano saxophonist associated with avant-garde/free jazz.

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Marion Brown

Marion Brown (September 8, 1931 – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist.

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Marion Meadows

Marion Meadows (born July 24, 1962) is an American soprano saxophonist and composer, mainly in smooth jazz.

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Marius Neset

Marius Søfteland Neset (born 2 January 1985) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) living in Copenhagen.

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Mark Turner (musician)

Mark Turner (born November 10, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Mars Williams

Marc Charles "Mars" Williams (May 29, 1955 – November 20, 2023) was an American jazz and rock saxophonist.

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Marshal Royal

Marshal Walton Royal Jr. (December 5, 1912 – May 8, 1995) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist best known for his work with Count Basie, with whose band he played for nearly twenty years.

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Mathilde Grooss Viddal

Mathilde Grooss Viddal (born 6 May 1969) is a Norwegian musician (saxophone and clarinet) and composer, known as the leader of Friensemblet and as member of bands like Lucky Loop and Eick/Viddal Duo.

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Mette Henriette

Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg is a performing artist, saxophonist, band leader and composer from Norway.

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Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007), nicknamed Dr.

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Michael Lington

Michael Lington (born June 11, 1969) is a Danish-American contemporary saxophonist, songwriter, producer, recording artist and a purveyor of soul and contemporary jazz.

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Michel Pastre

Michel Pastre (born April 7, 1966) is a French jazz tenor saxophonist. List of jazz saxophonists and Michel Pastre are jazz saxophonists.

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Michel Portal

Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.

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Mickey Fields

Wilfred "Mickey" Fields (1932/33 – January 16, 1995) was a Baltimore-area jazz saxophonist, a local legend who refused to play outside the Baltimore area, although he was asked to leave Baltimore many times to go on the road with many famous bands.

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Miguel Zenón

Miguel Zenón (born December 30, 1976) is a Puerto Rican alto saxophonist, composer, band leader, music producer, and educator.

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Mike Murley

Mike Murley (born December 12, 1961) is a Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer from Windsor, Nova Scotia who was a member of the Shuffle Demons from 1984 to 1989 and Time Warp.

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Mike Osborne

Michael Evans Osborne (28 September 1941 – 19 September 2007) was an English jazz alto saxophonist, pianist, and clarinetist who was a member of the band Brotherhood of Breath in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Mike Smith (jazz saxophonist)

Michael Smith (born March 3, 1957) is an American jazz saxophonist who has released albums as leader on Delmark Records, and his own labels Fastrax and Underground Labs.

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Mikkel Flagstad

Michael "Mikkel" Flagstad (23 April 1930 – 29 June 2005) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), son of the cellist Ole Flagstad and nephew of the pianist Lasse Flagstad, the singer Karen-Marie Flagstad and opera singer Kirsten Flagstad.

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Mindi Abair

Mindi Abair (born May 23, 1969) is an American saxophonist, vocalist, author, and National Trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization that puts on the Grammy Awards show.

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Mornington Lockett

Mornington Edward Lockett (born 19 November 1961) is an English jazz saxophonist.

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Morten Halle

Morten Halle (born 7 October 1957) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), composer and music arranger.

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States.

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Najee

Jerome Najee Rasheed (born November 4, 1957, New York City), known professionally as Najee, is an American jazz-smooth jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Nathan Davis (saxophonist)

Nathan Tate Davis (February 15, 1937 – April 8, 2018) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute.

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Nelson Rangell

Nelson Rangell (born March 26, 1960) is an American smooth jazz musician and composer from Castle Rock, Colorado.

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Nick Brignola

Nicholas Thomas "Nick" Brignola (July 17, 1936 – February 8, 2002) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.

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Niels Klein

Niels Klein (born 1978 in Hamburg) is a German jazz musician (soprano, tenor saxophone, clarinet) and composer.

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Nigel Hitchcock

Nigel Hitchcock (born 4 January 1971) is an English jazz saxophonist.

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Nils Jansen

Nils Jansen (born 30 March 1959 in Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), known from several recordings and jazz orchestras.

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Njål Ølnes

Njål Ølnes (born 24 September 1965 in Sogndal, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone), composer and jazz educator currently residing in Nesodden.

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Noah Becker

Noah Becker (born 1970) is an American and Canadian artist, writer, publisher of Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and jazz saxophonist who lives and works in New York City and Vancouver Island.

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Noah Preminger

Noah Preminger (born) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Nubya Garcia

Nubya Nyasha Garcia (born 1991) is an English jazz musician, saxophonist, composer and bandleader.

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Odd Riisnæs

Odd Riisnæs (born 12 May 1953) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer.

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Odean Pope

Odean Pope (born October 24, 1938) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Olav Dale

Olav Dale (30 October 1958 – 10 October 2014) was a Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist.

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Ole Jacob Hystad

Ole Jacob Hystad (born 20 July 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone and clarinet).

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Ole Mathisen

Ole Mathisen (born 13 February 1965) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet) and composer.

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Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer.

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Pamela Williams

Pamela Williams (born 1963) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

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Paquito D'Rivera

Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras (born 4 June 1948), known as Paquito D'Rivera, is a Cuban-American alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.

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Pat LaBarbera

Pat (Pascel Emmanuel) LaBarbera (born April 7, 1944) is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist born in Mt. Morris, New York, most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands from 1967 to 1973.

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Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz.

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Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall (born 6 May 1953) is a British jazz musician who plays tenor and soprano saxophone, as well as the baritone and the more exotic saxello and the Northumbrian smallpipes.

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Paul Gonsalves

Paul Gonsalves (–) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington.

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Paul Horn (musician)

Paul Horn (March 17, 1930 – June 29, 2014) was an American flautist, saxophonist, composer and producer.

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Paul Jeffrey

Paul Jeffrey (April 8, 1933 – March 20, 2015) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and educator.

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Paul Quinichette

Paul Quinichette (May 17, 1916 – May 25, 1983) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Paul Shapiro (musician)

Paul Shapiro is a jazz, world, and klezmer saxophonist from New York City.

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Paul Taylor (saxophonist)

Paul Taylor (born April 30, 1960) is an American smooth jazz alto and soprano saxophonist who has released twelve albums since his debut On the Horn in 1995.

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Pe'z

was a Japanese jazz instrumental band consisting of five men, dubbed "The Samurai Jazz Band." They were signed onto Sony Music Japan from 2008 until their split in 2015.

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Pepper Adams

Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer.

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Pete Allen (musician)

Pete Allen (born 23 November 1954) is an English Dixieland jazz clarinettist, alto and soprano saxophonist, banjo, bandleader, and vocalist.

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Pete Brown (jazz musician)

James Ostend "Pete" Brown (November 9, 1906 – September 20, 1963) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader.

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Pete Christlieb

Peter Christlieb (born February 16, 1945) is an American musician, playing tenor saxophone in the styles of jazz bebop, West Coast jazz, hard bop and pop music.

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Pete King (saxophonist)

Peter Stephen George King (23 August 1929; Bow, London – 20 December 2009) was a British jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Pete Yellin

Peter Michael Yellin (July 18, 1941 – April 13, 2016) was an American jazz saxophonist and educator.

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Peter Apfelbaum

Peter Noah Apfelbaum (born August 21, 1960) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, tenor saxophonist, drummer, and composer born in Berkeley, California.

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Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023) was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz.

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Peter Epstein

Peter Coleman Epstein (born January 18, 1967) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Peter Guidi

Peter Guidi (14 September 1949 – 17 April 2018) was a jazz saxophonist and jazz flutist whose main instruments were the flute, alto and bass flute, alto and soprano saxophones.

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Peter King (saxophonist)

Peter John King (11 August 1940 – 23 August 2020) was an English jazz saxophonist, composer, and clarinettist.

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Petter Wettre

Petter Wettre (born 11 August 1967) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (Saxophone) and composer, known from a number of album recordings, accompanied by receiving the Spellemannprisen two times.

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Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Phil Woods

Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.

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Polo Barnes

Paul D. "Polo" Barnes (November 22, 1901 – April 3, 1981, New Orleans) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.

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Pony Poindexter

Norwood "Pony" Poindexter (February 8, 1926, New Orleans, Louisiana – April 14, 1988, Oakland, California) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Premik Russell Tubbs

Premik Russell Tubbs is an American saxophonist, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Preston Love

Preston Haynes Love (April 26, 1921 – February 12, 2004) was an American saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States, best known as a sideman for jazz and rhythm and blues artists like Count Basie and Ray Charles.

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Prince Lasha

William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha, (September 10, 1929 – December 12, 2008) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, baritone saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist and English horn player.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935Kernfeld, Barry. "." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved February 1, 2009-. "The year of his birth has been widely given as 1936, but his birth certificate gives 1935 and confirms Ronald, not Roland." – December 5, 1977), known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments.

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Ralph Bowen

Ralph Bowen (born December 24, 1961) is a Canadian jazz saxophonist.

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Randolph Colville

Randolph Colville (23 May 1942 – 15 January 2004) was a Scottish jazz swing clarinettist, saxophonist, bandleader and arranger, perhaps best known for his work with the Keith Nichols' Midnite Follies Orchestra.

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Ravi Coltrane

Ravi Coltrane (born August 6, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Ray Crawford

Ray Crawford (October 26, 1915 – February 1, 1996) was an American fighter ace, test pilot, race-car driver and businessman.

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Red Holloway

James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Reggie Houston

Reggie Houston (born July 2, 1947, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American musician who plays soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone and baritone saxophone.

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Rent Romus

Rent Romus (born 1968) is an American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, music and performing arts producer, and community leader living in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rich Perry

Rich Perry is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Cleveland, Ohio.

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Richard Cook (journalist)

Richard David Cook (7 February 1957 – 25 August 2007) was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive.

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Richard Elliot

Richard Elliot (born January 16, 1960) is an American saxophonist.

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Richard Tabnik

Richard Tabnik (born 1952) is an American jazz saxophonist who lives in New York City.

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Richie Cole (musician)

Richie Cole (February 29, 1948 – May 2, 2020) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Richie Kamuca

Richie Kamuca (July 23, 1930 – July 22, 1977) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Ricky Ford

Ricky Ford (born March 4, 1954) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Robert Stewart (saxophonist)

Robert Darrin Stewart is an American saxophonist.

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Robin Kenyatta

Robin Kenyatta (March 6, 1942 – October 26, 2004) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

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Roger Neumann

Roger Neumann (3 January 1941 – 28 November 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, arranger, and music educator.

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Rolf-Erik Nystrøm

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm (born 23 April 1975) is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer in the field of contemporary music.

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Ron Blake

Ron Blake (born September 7, 1965) is an American saxophonist, band leader, composer, and music educator.

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Ron Holloway

Ronald Edward Holloway (born August 24, 1953) is an American tenor saxophonist.

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Ronnie Cuber

Ronald Edward Cuber (December 25, 1941 – October 7, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Ronnie Laws

Ronald Wayne Laws (born October 3, 1950) is an American jazz and smooth jazz saxophonist, and singer.

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Ronnie Ross

Albert Ronald Ross (2 October 1933 – 12 December 1991) was a British jazz baritone saxophonist.

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Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott OBE (born Ronald Schatt; 28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.

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Rosa King

Rosa King (March 14, 1939 – December 12, 2000) was an American jazz and blues saxophonist and singer who made her fame in Amsterdam.

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Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist".

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Rudresh Mahanthappa

Rudresh Mahanthappa (born May 4, 1971) is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer.

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Russell Procope

Russell Keith Procope (August 11, 1908 – January 21, 1981) was an American clarinetist and alto saxophonist who was a member of the Duke Ellington orchestra.

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Rusty Bryant

Royal Gordon "Rusty" Bryant (November 25, 1929 – March 25, 1991) was an American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist.

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Sadao Watanabe (musician)

is a Japanese jazz musician who plays alto saxophone and sopranino saxophone.

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Sahib Shihab

Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory; June 23, 1925 – October 24, 1989) was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist (baritone, alto, and soprano) and flautist.

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Sal Giorgianni

Sal Giorgianni is an American saxophone player.

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Sal Nistico

Salvatore Nistico (April 2, 1940 – March 3, 1991) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Sam Butera

Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was an American tenor saxophonist and singer best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith.

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Sam Donahue

Samuel Koontz Donahue (March 18, 1918 – March 22, 1974) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, and musical arranger.

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Sam Rivers (jazz musician)

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer.

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Sandy Evans

Sandy Evans is an Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.

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Scheila Gonzalez

Scheila Gonzalez (born August 5, 1971 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Grammy winning multi-instrumentalist and music educator.

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Scoops Carry

Scoops Carry (January 23, 1915 – August 4, 1970), born George Dorman and sometimes billed as Scoops Carey, was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Scott Hamilton (musician)

Scott Hamilton (born September 12, 1954) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing and straight-ahead jazz.

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Scott Robinson (jazz musician)

Scott Robinson (born April 27, 1959) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist.

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Seamus Blake

Seamus Blake (born December 8, 1970) is a British-born Canadian tenor saxophonist.

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Serge Chaloff

Serge Chaloff (November 24, 1923 – July 16, 1957) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.

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Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings (born 1984) is a British jazz musician, composer and bandleader.

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Sidney Bechet

Sidney Joseph Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Sigurd Køhn

Sigurd Eystein Køhn (6 August 1959 – 26 December 2004) was a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music.

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Sonny Criss

William "Sonny" Criss (23 October 1927 – 19 November 1977) was an American jazz musician.

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Sonny Fortune

Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune (May 19, 1939 – October 25, 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Sonny Red

Sylvester Kyner Jr. (December 17, 1932 – March 20, 1981), known as Sonny Red, was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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Sonny Simmons

Huey "Sonny" Simmons (August 4, 1933 – April 6, 2021) was an American jazz musician.

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Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt (born Edward Hammond Boatner Jr.; February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Sophie Alour

Sophie Alour (born 24 December 1974) is a French jazz musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute.

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Spike Robinson

Henry Bertholf "Spike" Robinson (January 16, 1930 – October 29, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski, February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer.

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Steve Cole

Steve Cole (born August 17, 1970) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

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Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman (born September 20, 1956) is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader and music theorist.

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Steve Grossman (saxophonist)

Steven Mark Grossman (January 18, 1951August 13, 2020) was an American jazz fusion and hard bop saxophonist.

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Steve Houben

Steve Houben (born 19 March 1950 in Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian jazz saxophonist and flutist.

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Steve Lacy (saxophonist)

Steve Lacy (born Steven Norman Lackritz; July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone.

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Steve Marcus

Steve Marcus (September 18, 1939 – September 25, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Steve Slagle

Steve Slagle (born September 18, 1951) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Steve Williamson

Steve Williamson (born 28 June 1964) is an English saxophonist and composer (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, keyboard and composition). List of jazz saxophonists and Steve Williamson are jazz saxophonists.

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Steve Wilson (jazz musician)

Steve Wilson (born February 9, 1961) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, who is best known in the musical community as a flutist and an alto and soprano saxophonist.

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Svein Magnus Furu

Svein Magnus Furu (born 10 November 1983) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone) composer and music journalist, known from several bands and album releases.

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Tab Smith

Talmadge "Tab" Smith (January 11, 1909 – August 17, 1971) was an American swing and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist.

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Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1960)

Ted Nash (born December 28, 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer.

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Teddy Edwards

Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards (April 26, 1924 – April 20, 2003) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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Teo Macero

Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) was an American jazz record producer, saxophonist, and composer.

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Tex Beneke

Gordon Lee "Tex" Beneke (February 12, 1914 – May 30, 2000) was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader.

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Theo Travis

Theo Travis (born 7 July 1964) is a British saxophonist, flautist and composer.

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Tia Fuller

Tia Fuller (born March 27, 1976) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator, and a member of the all-female band touring with Beyoncé.

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Tim Berne

Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner.

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Tim Garland

Tim Garland (born 19 October 1966) is a British jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Tina Brooks

Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks (June 7, 1932 – August 13, 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer best remembered for his work in the hard bop style.

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Tineke Postma

Tineke Postma (born August 31, 1978) is a Dutch jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Tom Keenlyside

Thomas William Keenlyside (born 1950) is a Canadian saxophonist and flautist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Tom Scott (saxophonist)

Thomas Wright Scott (born May 19, 1948) is an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Tommy Gwaltney

Thomas Oliver Gwaltney III (February 28, 1921, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States – February 11, 2003, in Virginia Beach, Virginia) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.

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Tommy Smith (saxophonist)

Thomas William Ellis Smith (born 27 April 1967) is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator.

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Tommy Whittle

Tommy Whittle (13 October 1926 – 13 October 2013) was a British jazz saxophonist.

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Tony Coe

Anthony George Coe (29 November 1934 – 16 March 2023) was an English jazz musician who played clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute as well as soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones.

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Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen (born 11 August 1973 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Tore Brunborg

Tore Brunborg (born 20 May 1960) is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer who plays saxophone.

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Totti Bergh

Theodor Christian Frølich Bergh known as Totti Bergh (5 December 1935 in Oslo – 4 January 2012 in Oslo) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), the younger brother of the jazz journalist Johannes (Johs.) Bergh (1932–2001).

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Trevor Watts

Trevor Charles Watts (born 26 February 1939) is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist.

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Trygve Seim

Trygve Seim (born 25 April 1971) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Tubby Hayes

Edward Brian "Tubby" Hayes (30 January 1935 – 8 June 1973) was a British jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known for his virtuosic musicianship on tenor saxophone and for performing in jazz groups with fellow sax player Ronnie Scott and trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar.

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Vernon Story

Vernon Ford Story (November 16, 1922 – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Vi Redd

Elvira Louise Redd (September 20, 1928 – February 6, 2022) was an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator.

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Victor Goines

Victor Louis Goines (born August 6, 1961) is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who has served as president and chief executive officer of Jazz St. Louis since September 2022.

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Vido Musso

Vido William Musso (January 16, 1913 – January 9, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Vincent Herring

Vincent Dwyne Herring (born November 19, 1964) is an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and educator.

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Von Freeman

Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman Sr. (October 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Wally Fawkes

Walter Ernest Fawkes (21 June 1924 – 1 March 2023), also known as Trog when signing cartoons, was a Canadian-British jazz clarinettist and satirical cartoonist.

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Walter Beasley

Walter Beasley (born May 24, 1961) is an American saxophonist, a professor of music at the Berklee College of Music, and founder of Affable Publishing and Affable Records.

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Walter Blanding

Walter Blanding Jr. (born August 14, 1971, Cleveland) is an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Walter Parazaider

Walter Parazaider (born March 14, 1945) is an American woodwind musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago.

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Wardell Gray

Wardell Gray (February 13, 1921 – May 25, 1955) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who straddled the swing and bebop periods.

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Warne Marsh

Warne Marion Marsh (October 26, 1927 – December 18, 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist.

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Warren Hill (musician)

Warren Hill (born April 15, 1966) is a smooth jazz alto saxophonist from Toronto, Canada.

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Wayne Escoffery

Wayne Escoffery (born 23 February 1975) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Wayne Shorter

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Wessell Anderson

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Willem Breuker

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Wilton Felder

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Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

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YolanDa Brown

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Yusef Lateef

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Zachary Lipton

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Zbigniew Namysłowski

Zbigniew Jacek Namysłowski (9 September 1939 – 7 February 2022) was a Polish jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, cellist, trombonist, pianist and composer. List of jazz saxophonists and Zbigniew Namysłowski are jazz saxophonists.

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Zoot Sims

John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone.

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See also

Jazz saxophonists

• Adam Pierończyk
• Aleksei Kozlov (musician)
• Alex Clarke (saxophonist)
• Arturo Tappin
• Benjamín Brea
• Bhumibol Adulyadej
• Binker Golding
• Bruno Spoerri
• Daniel Zamir
• Ed Xiques
• Eli Bennett
• Frank Vaganée
• Freddy Grant
• Gary Thomas (musician)
• Greg Osby
• Isaiah Katumwa
• Jack Sels
• Jacques Pelzer
• Jacques Schwarz-Bart
• James Tartaglia
• Joe Kučera
• Juhani Aaltonen
• Lajos Dudas
• Leszek Żądło
• List of jazz saxophonists
• Luis Silva Parra
• Maciej Obara
• Mario Rivera (musician)
• Massimo Urbani
• Mat Walerian
• Michael Thieke
• Michel Pastre
• Mike Aremu
• Momo Wandel Soumah
• Nikele Moyake
• Petr Kroutil
• Pietro Tonolo
• Ray Warleigh
• Remi Álvarez
• Steve Williamson
• Teddy Stauffer
• Thanis Sriklindee
• Tim Armacost
• Tone Janša
• Zbigniew Namysłowski

Lists of jazz musicians

• French horn in jazz
• Jazz royalty
• List of Finnish jazz musicians
• List of Moldejazz celebrity artists
• List of bebop musicians
• List of chamber jazz musicians
• List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians
• List of free funk musicians
• List of hard bop musicians
• List of jazz banjoists
• List of jazz bassists
• List of jazz drummers
• List of jazz fusion musicians
• List of jazz guitarists
• List of jazz musicians
• List of jazz organists
• List of jazz percussionists
• List of jazz pianists
• List of jazz saxophonists
• List of jazz trombonists
• List of jazz trumpeters
• List of jazz violinists
• List of jazz vocalists
• List of neo-bop musicians
• List of nicknames of jazz musicians
• List of performers at the Montreux Jazz Festival
• List of scat singers
• List of smooth jazz musicians
• List of soul jazz musicians
• List of swing musicians
• List of vibraphonists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_saxophonists

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