FMP: Glaizer X Ranaglia, Sam Newsome and Max Johnson, Kyle Press
Sun, Jun 30
|Maas Building
Soprano and Prepared Sax, Sam Newsome, specialist joins UPenn new music phd weirdo Max. Member Max Glazier opens alongside bari saxophonist AJ Ranaglia.
Time & Location
Jun 30, 2024, 7:30 PM
Maas Building, 1320 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
About the event
Tickets and info here
Sam Newsome & Max Johnson duo:
Saxophonist Sam Newsome is a soprano saxophone specialist. Since making the soprano his main instrument almost 20 years ago, he has established himself as one of the more important soprano players of his generation. Newsome has been nominated by the Jazz Journalist Association (JJA) as “Soprano Saxophonist of Year,” several years in a row, and has consistently placed in the top 10 in the Downbeat Critics Poll in the “Soprano Saxophone” category. Newsome, who made a name for himself as a tenor saxophonist in the Terence Blanchard band in the early nineties, has moved away from his hard bop roots and now embraces more experimental and avant garde concepts. In addition to being associate professor of jazz studies at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, Newsome continues to tour, record and develop new ways to explore the soprano saxophone’s sonic terrain.