![]() ![]() "My music career is the culmination of a fairly common path," he jokes, "before making that first record, I did the usual things: ranch hand, linebacker, fur trapper, ballet dancer, stockbroker, actor, computer programmer, Pilates instructor & art handler…in that order. Light & Blood's SRO release party at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock was listed in the Top 5 Live Shows of 2007 by New York's Times-Record-just behind Jack Ingram, Ted Nugent, Queen Latifah and Bob Dylan. The result is at once lean and lush.a smoldering confessional work.soulful Americana laced with a driving groove. Every track was performed live with no overdubs or punch-ins. The record was mixed by Grammy-nominated engineer Roman Klun (Sarah McLachlan, Joan Osborne, Spin Doctors). The album's thirteen tracks were recorded over a two-day span in March '07 by Pete Caigan (Bad Brains, Tony Levin) at Flymax Studio in Woodstock, NY. It was that experience, though, that helped wring out my first song, 'Lord, Girl'…I still need to record that one."īret Mosley's critically-acclaimed debut album Light & Blood was released in Dec '07 on Woodstock MusicWorks, and hailed as "a heart-felt masterpiece" by NeuFutur Magazine. I still have the guitar, even though some dear soul at UPS drove a forklift through it several years ago…the culmination to an extremely uphill stint in L.A. "A few years later-a good while before turntables became musical instruments-I turned a Chet Atkins record by hand to learn Yakety Axe note-by-note. It does not store any personal data."I first picked up my father's Stella Harmony 6-string when I was six," he says. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I have included Junior Walker as he was around and out there gigging in the mid 50s as a very young man. Maceo Parker, Jim Horn, Steve Douglas or Edgar Winter. a dance groove with a solid back beat or boogie feel, so somehow, Roland Kirk managed to slip in there! Neither did I include players who predominantly made their mark in the 60s and later, e.g. Or maybe their jazz recordings fitted firmly into how we think of an R&B record, e.g. In the end I decided to include players who were either out and out R & B rocking ” Screamers and Honkers”, or blues jazz players if they also worked as session musicians on R&B records. In fact some of the players I did include were very fine jazz musicians and may prefer to think of themselves as such rather than primarily R&B players. I would like to have included more of the bluesy jazz players such as Lou Donaldson, Hank Crawford, Stanley Turrentine, Leo Parker. My list of players (and I’m still receiving suggestions) could be endless, so in some respects I’ve had to be brutal. Some of these are jazz players who contributed significantly to the development of blues saxophone, others are hardcore bar walking “screamers and honkers.” Enjoy learning about this colourful era of the saxophone. These biographies, photos and soundclips include all the influential R & B saxophone players of the 40s and 50s. ![]() Rhythm and Blues Saxophone Playing | Blues Transcriptions All audio on this page is paid for The R & B saxophone player list CaféSaxophone Our friendly and informative discussion forum.Arranging Composing Voicing, backings, rhythm.Jazz & Blues More advanced Impro / Theory.Beginners’ Impro & Theory Learn about chords & scales.Saxophone Effects Growling, bending, false fingerings.Tone & Sound Vibrato, subtone, altissimo, embouchure, tuning.Technical Maintenance, repair, recording.Mouthpieces Comparisons, charts, materials,.Players Great jazz & rhythm & blues players.Saxophone Info Info | Reviews | History.Music Albums, music composed for TV, film, radio & games. ![]()
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