#ALTO SAXOPHONE BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS SERIES#

#ALTO SAXOPHONE BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS SERIES#

The last ten years has delivered a series of well-received dates for the prominent Savant record label. Highlights include Mixed Bag (Criss Cross, 1987), his first widely-available release, Blue Afternoon (Criss Cross, 1989), deemed one of the best jazz records in history in The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History Of The Music In The 1001 Best Albums, and Strings (Milestone, 2003) which he both composed and arranged for string orchestra, hailed a вЂњmasterpieceвЂќ by several major news organizations. Over the quarter century that followed, he created an enviable body of work built with musical consistency and stylistic diversity. Snidero became a leader on record with On Time (Toshiba/EMI 1984), the first of many notable dates that he would record under his own name. Word of his skills quickly spread, leading Snidero down other avenues with the Mingus Big Band, saxophone icon Frank Wess, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Eddie Palmieri, and Frank Sinatra (Duets II, Capitol), to name just a few. That proved to be the first of many notable sideman stints for the then-budding saxophonist. As an alto saxophonist, composer, arranger, author and educator, Snidero has been called both a вЂњmaster musicianвЂќ and вЂњalto saxophone virtuosoвЂќ by Downbeat Magazine, and placed in the 2017 Downbeat CriticвЂ™s Poll, demonstrating his continued impact on the international jazz scene.ДЄfter arriving in The Big Apple in 1981 at age 23, Snidero first appeared on the jazz radar when he joined Brother Jack McDuffвЂ™s band, recording 3 albums with a jazz giant. Over the past thirty-five years, Jim Snidero has come to be known as one of the finest jazz musicians of his generation.

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