Richard Ingham (Editor) - The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone tells the story of the saxophone, its history and technical development from its invention by Adolphe Sax c. 1840 to the end of the twentieth century. It includes extensive accounts of the instruments history in jazz, rock and classical music as well as providing performance guides. Discussion of the repertoire and soloists from 1850 to the present day includes accessible descriptions of contemporary techniques and trends, and moves into the electronic age with midi wind instruments. There is a discussion of the function of the saxophone in the orchestra, in light music, and in rock and pop studios, as well as of the saxophone quartet as an important chamber music medium. The contributors to this volume are some of the finest performers and experts on the saxophone.

Richard Ingham is a lecturer at Leeds College of Music and is a member of the Northern Saxophone Quartet.

The Cambridge Companion to the

EDITED BY

Richard Ingham

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The Cambridge companion to the saxophone / edited by Richard Ingham.

p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0 521 59348 4

1. Saxophone. I. Ingham, Richard. II. Series.

ML975.C36 1998

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From saxophone quartets by Strauss

On days off from the Opera House,

Or works by Milhaud and Ravel

Or Villa-Lobos in Brazil,

To Lester leaping in possessed

By his brass-belled iconoclast,

The sound we hear is yours, Adolphe,

Posterity, its howling wolf,

Time salivating on a reed

And fingering at breakneck speed.

from Douglas Dunn, An Address to Adolphe

Sax in Heaven (Northlight, 1988)

Thomas Liley

Don Ashton

Thomas Dryer-Beers

Thomas Liley

Richard Ingham

Kyle Horch

David Roach

Nick Turner

Stephen Trier

Gordon Lewin

Chris Snake Davis

Richard Ingham

Richard Ingham and John Helliwell

Claude Delangle and Jean-Denis Michat (translated by Peter Nichols)

Richard Ingham

Kyle Horch

Don Ashton, MIMIT, a lifelong champion of the saxophone, author, writer and arranger, is involved in teaching as varied in level as in scope. Players and groups of all standards discover his music to reflect an intimate understanding of the saxophone, its sounds and its capabilities in both experienced and less practised hands. This intimacy extends to the saxophones mechanicswith over forty years of experience he is a partner ofWoodwind & Company, repairers well-respected in the UK music industry.

Chris Snake Davis studied at Leeds College of Music and began playing soul and Motown as the front man for The Alligator Shoes. Following a period of study on cruise liners and in New York, he formed the band Snake Davis and the Charmers which toured Europe to great success. Wider exposure for his talents has come via many performances for television, and many of todays major recording artists have also appreciated Chriss ability, including Swing Out Sister, Lisa Stansfield, Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys and M-People.

Claude Delangle won first prizes in saxophone and chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) before beginning his career as an international soloist. In 1986 Pierre Boulez invited him to join the Ensemble InterContemporain; he has made twenty recordings and has been Professor of Saxophone at the Paris Conservatoire since 1988 (following Adolphe Sax, Marcel Mule and Daniel Deffayet). He is President of the International Association for the Development of the Saxophone and of the International Saxophone Committee. Numerous works have been dedicated to him, and his first performances include works by Berio, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Denisov and Stockhausen.

Thomas Dryer-Beers received his B.Mus. from Indiana University under Dr Eugene Rousseau and M.Mus. at North Texas State University under James Riggs. Since coming to England in 1988 he has taught as a peripatetic music teacher, lecturer, orchestral and chamber music coach, and private instructor. He has performed at several World Saxophone Congresses and was a recitalist at the first and second British Saxophone Congresses. With the Texas Saxophone Quartet he was an award winner in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and was a member of Saxtet. Thomas is Retail Manager for Wood, Wind and Reed of Cambridge.

John Helliwell worked as a computer programmer for two years before touring with the Alan Bown Set in the 1960s. In 1973 he joined the band Supertramp on saxophone and clarinet, moving to California in 1975, and recording and touring extensively until 1988, during which time the bands great international success included the albums Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America. They have sold fifty million albums to date. Session work in California and a period of study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester occupied John before Supertramp began their Its About Time world tour in 1997.

Kyle Horch is a free-lance saxophonist based in London, and has given recital and chamber music performances at the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, British and World Saxophone Congresses, and at many other venues in Britain and abroad. He is a member of the Mistral Saxophone Quartet; other work includes concerts and recordings with symphony orchestras, contemporary and chamber music groups, dance bands and theatrical ensembles. He has given masterclasses at many institutions in Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Australia, Norway and the USA. He teaches at the Royal College of Music in London.

Richard Ingham is a member of the Northern Saxophone Quartet, with whom he has performed in Britain, Europe, the USA and Japan. He has broadcast and recorded many items of the solo saxophone repertoire and has presented masterclasses in conservatoires in the UK and abroad. He is Visiting Professor of Jazz at the University of St Andrews and lectures at Leeds College of Music. He was chairman of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain (198992) and co-directed the first British Saxophone Congresses from 1990 to 1996. He has premired several new works for midi wind controller.