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5 days ago · “Yeah, that was the big era, when we got to go crazy. That was big production. We had the orchestra. We had Tom Scott, who played the saxophone part on Rapture, and who also had played the theme to the film Taxi Driver. Jazz bassist Ray Brown played bass on one track, Faces. There was a lot of people and it was all good stuff.”
1 day ago · "Billie Jean" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on January 3, 1983, as the second single from his sixth studio album, Thriller (1982). It was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and co-produced by Jackson. "Billie Jean" blends post-disco, R&B, funk, and dance-pop. The ...
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5 days ago · Tom Scott’s Podcast Express spotlights many of the people the legendary saxophonist and composer has known in the course of his 50-year career in entertainment. Tom visits with master musicians, actors, writers, filmmakers, members of the media and politicos as they talk about their struggles and triumphs.
4 days ago · by Matt Micucci. Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders propelled the age of spiritual jazz forward with his third album as a leader. Karma was released in 1969 via Impulse! The recording featured his strongest band up to that point, as well as one of his signature tunes. “The Creator Has a Master Plan” is built around an eight-note cycle, a prayer ...
5 days ago · Thomas Giles takes on Meredith Monk’s ‘Hocket’, originally composed for two singers sharing the same complex melody. Meredith Monk’s ‘Hocket’ was written for two singers, who are supposed to share the melody between them. It’s insanely clever, a bit like that thing you do when you try and say a sentence with a friend by ...
5 days ago · Jim Pepper (born June 18, 1941, Salem, Oregon, U.S.—died February 10, 1992, Portland, Oregon) was an American saxophonist, singer, and composer known for a musical style that fused various genres of Native American music —including stomp dance, peyote music, and intertribal powwow music—with jazz, rock, country, and other popular music ...
3 days ago · Simon Spillett is a multi-award-winning saxophonist, capable of taking the audiences who hear him on a roller-coaster of emotions. Contact us today.
