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| Saxton Replaces Youngblood for Harlem Speaks Due to family circumstances, saxophonist and bandleader Lonnie Youngblood has regretfully postponed his appearance slated for Thursday, December 15, 2005. His friend and fellow saxophonist Bill Saxton has consented to sit in a second time for the Jazz Museum in Harlem's Harlem Speaks conversation series. Since Saxton's first talk on July 28, 2005, the Harlem native has launched a jazz parlor called “Bill's Place, ” located at 148 West 133rd Street, between Lenox and Seventh Avenues. The new performance venue is located on “the main floor of a renovated four-story brownstone, ” as Amsterdam News jazz writer Ron Scott recently reported. Saxton will discuss the origins and intent of his jazz parlor as well as the mission of Harlem Jazz Scene, Inc., which is housed there. Saxton's quartet was a regular at St. Nick's Pub for over a decade. The Harlem cosmopolite has also performed world-wide, touring Europe and Africa and across the United States since the 1980s. He studied woodwinds, arranging and composition at the New England Conservatory, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973. He's played and recorded with a virtual who's who of jazz, including the most recent Harlem Speaks guest Clark Terry, and, among others, Clifford Jordan, Charlie Persip, Frank Foster, Tito Puente, Jimmy Ponder, and Bobby Watson. He's a superb leader and sideman, and a top-notch jazz educator as well, serving as an adjunct faculty member of the New School of Social Research. Saxton also coaches a clarinet ensemble and teaches music theory to youth on behalf of a music program sponsored by the NYC Housing Authority. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |