When was marion meadows born

All four Heads Up recordings have been well received by his ever-growing, always loyal fans. Aside from that wonderful sense of live communication, the real magic for me happens in the studio when I put on those headphones and start playing.

Everything else in my musical life comes out of that moment. Heads Up International Instrument: Saxophone. All rights reserved. Reset your password Click the eye to show your password. All About Jazz musician pages are maintained by musicians, publicists and trusted members like you. Tell us why you would like to improve the Marion Meadows musician page. Please Sign Up or Sign In to send your inquiry. Home » Musicians » Marion Meadows Advertise. Marion Meadows Saxophone.

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Jeff Kashiwa saxophone. With each of his three previous albums for RCA Records, acclaimed saxophonist Marion Meadows has been building a strong and loyal audience among music lovers both at home and abroad. I've acquired a certain audience that likes what I do: I'm always searching for compositions that will be pleasing to them.

This record has a lot of what I'm known for, and I'd say it's more accessible. It was certainly a great album to record In a more reflective vein, the mellow ballad Be With You, One More Chance a quiet storm-flavored duet featuring Asha and vocalist Blacke , the hypnotic Deep Waters and the album's sensuous title track all showcase the talented saxman's versatility.

I did some research and found that not many jazz players had covered the song, so I was able to pull it off without worrying if someone else had done it recently. Then, Get Involved is pretty funky - it's a tune that I created on the spot in the studio and that was a lot of fun. Like Marion's Theme , the track South Beach has a Latin feel: Bobby Allende played percussion on both tunes and it has a very infectious melody.

He started exploring jazz after he acquired his first sax during his teens, playing, studying arranging and composition at the prestigious Berkelee School of Music in Boston, and studying orchestration at the New York State University for the Arts at Purchase. A new version of Last. Born in West Virginia, saxophonist Marion Meadows — whose ethnic mix is Native American, African American and Caucasian — he grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, where he began playing clarinet and studying classical music at eight years old.

His passion for different types of music led him to appreciate numerous jazz musicians, including Stanley Turrentine, Sidney Bichet, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins, and he naturally gravitated to the soprano sax in his high school years.

Fortunately for the smooth jazz fans who have embraced his sweet and funky soprano sound over the last decade, Meadows decided to take a few very important trips to Europe during his junior and senior years.

He had dreamed of being either a veterinarian or zoologist, and assumed he would enroll in college as a pre-med major. Playing the sax was just a hobby until he saw the way audiences reacted to him and his student cohorts in Holland, Italy and Austria. It was a tremendous rush, and lit the fire. After studying jazz with Anthony Truglia, Meadows attended Berklee College of Music, where he majored in arranging and composition.

I later produced his Passion album with him. Things just fell into place. He had been a sideman with Connors for three years with only vague notions of eventually going solo.