In 1966, with his orchestra, he recorded an album on the Ranwood Records label, with top-flight Jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges, featuring a number of Jazz standards, including " Someone to Watch Over Me ", " Misty " and " Fantastic, That's You ".

* Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis's 2009 album Metamorphosen is based on Ovid's epic Metamorphoses.

Given his jazz and salsa conga playing experience and knowledge ( working as a sideman with such bands as salsa's Frankie Dante's Orquesta Flamboyan and jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp ), Dawson also created the long running " Salsa Meets Jazz " weekly concert series at the Village Gate jazz club where jazz musicians would sit in with an established salsa band, for example Dexter Gordon jamming with the Machito band.

* Jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Courtney Pine moved to Kingsbury at age 14 and attended Kingsbury High School

He also toured with the Jazz at the Philharmonic show in 1957 and 1960, the first tour yielding a memorable live album featuring Johnson and tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.

* Eric Kloss, Jazz saxophonist

* Sidney Bechet, Jazz saxophonist

Jazz saxophonist Earl Bostic revived his career with instrumentals like " Harlem Nocturne " and " Earl's Rhumboogie ".

Currently happenings today can be found with Jazz in a whole new way through the artistic collaboration of renowned musicians American saxophonist David Liebman, French jazz pianist Jean-Marie Machado, and multimedia visual artist Barbara Januszkiewicz.

The band was formed by trumpeter John Rowlands and alto saxophonist Jack Massarik, who had seen the Alexis Korner band at a Manchester club and wanted to try a similar blend of Jazz and Blues.

Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker mentioned him as a personal favorite.

Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, who was called " Pres ", in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review, said: " As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right?

The grave of Coleman HawkinsIn the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson ( piano ), Herb Ellis ( guitar ), Ray Brown ( bass ), and Alvin Stoller ( drums ).

* Art Pepper, Jazz saxophonist, was born in nearby Gardena, but was raised in San Pedro.

WGBH Jazz, a popular public radio from Boston, Massachusetts, aired a special-documentary program for Lateef, titled A portrait of saxophonist Yusef Lateef in his own words and music.

He has written introductions to books including the controversial The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World and Graham Burnett's ' Earth Writings ' and in 2007 was working on a " Jazz Requiem " with saxophonist Ed Jones.

On his album Dis ( 1976 ), Jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek used recordings of an Aeolian harp which was situated at a Norwegian fjord as a background sound.

When Benny Golson left the Jazz Messengers, Morgan persuaded Blakey to hire Wayne Shorter, a young tenor saxophonist, to fill the chair.

African Jazz, which included Kabasele, sometimes called the father of modern Congolese music, as well as legendary Cameroonian saxophonist and keyboardist Manu Dibango, has become one of the most well-known groups in Africa, largely due to 1960's " Indépendance Cha Cha ", which celebrated Congo's independence and became an anthem for Africans across the continent.

* Gerald Albright, American Jazz saxophonist & composer

In 2008, Peacock recorded the Arc of the Circle ( Runway ) with saxophonist Jeff Coffin and the album peaked at No. 2 on the CMJ Jazz Charts.

In 1944 Lee Young was the drummer at Norman Granz's first " Jazz at the Philharmonic " concert, which also featured guitarist Les Paul, trombonist J. J. Johnson, and saxophonist Jean-Baptiste " Illinois " Jacquet, amongst others.

In 1950 he began writing arrangements for the King Fleming Band, and in 1955 played in the hard-bop band Modern Jazz Two + Three, with tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris.

In June 1969 Desmond appeared at the New Orleans Jazz Festival with Gerry Mulligan, procuring favorable reactions from critics and audience members.

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

* Gerry Mulligan Quartet at Storyville ( Bill Crow & Dave Bailey, Pacific Jazz, 1956 )

* Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard ( Verve, 1960 )

* Gerry Mulligan presents A Concert in Jazz ( Verve, 1961 )

* Gerry Mulligan ' 63, the Concert Jazz Band ( Verve )

# " Soft variants of bebop ", including the Miles Davis recordings that constitute Birth of the Cool ; the complete works of the Modern Jazz Quartet ; the output of Gerry Mulligan, especially his work with Chet Baker and Bob Brookmeyer ; the music of Stan Kenton's sidemen during the late 1940s through the 1950s ; and the works of George Shearing and Stan Getz.

He frequently led his own combos and sometimes toured with his friend Gerry Mulligan's sextet, and later with Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.

Notable dates include 1957 recordings with Vinnie Burke's String Jazz Quartet, a 1959 orchestra album with André Previn and a 1965 album of the Gerry Mulligan Quintet and Strings.

In 1995 the Hal Leonard Corporation released the video tape The Gerry Mulligan Workshop-A Master Class on Jazz and Its Legendary Players.

* 1955: Gerry Mulligan and his Quartet ( California Concerts or Jazz Goes To High School )

* 1960: Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard ( with drummer Mel Lewis )

He offered his big band library to Gerry Mulligan when Gerry formed the Concert Jazz Band, but Gerry regretfully declined the gift, since his instrumentation was different.

And from 1982-84 also played in Gerry Mulligans concert Jazz band.

Inspired by hearing Thelonious Monk's "' Round Midnight ", Russell moved to New York in the early 1940s, where he became a member of a coterie of young innovators who frequented the 55th Street apartment of Gil Evans, a clique which included Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis, later involved with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

They worked on the same bill as names like Miles Davis, Count Basie, Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet ; backed singers Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae ; and played at top venues such as Carnegie Hall and Birdland.

He played jazz that related to European traditions and which was the synthesis of two most popular groups at those times: The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet.

* 102 The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings of the Original Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentette with Chet Baker ( 3 CDs or 5 LPs )

Thus the Vanguard booked Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Jimmy Giuffre, Anita O ’ Day, Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans ( a regular ), Stan Getz, Carmen McRae .” The booking of Thelonious Monk was a particularly interesting story that demonstrated the Vanguard ’ s ability to take a relatively unknown musician and help launch his career.

The Sound of Jazz brought together 32 leading musicians from the swing era including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and Coleman Hawkins ; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry " Red " Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell ; and younger ' modernist ' musicians such as Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, and Jimmy Giuffre.