Charlie Parker (Bird)
Lester Young (Prez)
parker parker also known as "bird"
parker parker also known as "bird"
Trumpet players and Saxophone players will have different answers for you :P It's easier to say who were amazing players on those instruments in jazz. Trumpet - Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis Saxophone - Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins
Smooth jazz is a sub-category within jazz that is influenced by pop, R&B, rock, and funk. It has been popular since it's origins in the 1960s and the 1970s. Some major smooth jazz saxophone players are: Grover Washington Jr., Ronnie Laws, and Kenny G.
you can get lessons and use jazz books also if you listen to jazz sax players it will help you to learn jazzy styling and riffs for improv they also make jazz reeds and jazz mouthpieces, so you should invest in those if you are going to play a lot of jazz sax
The most favoured model of saxophone that most jazz players would prefer to play if they could afford one.
in jazz
It depends: there have been many famous clarinet jazz players, but as a whole, clarinets are not usually in jazz bands
Saxophone is best known as a jazz instrument, but it originated in military and concert bands, which are closer to classical music, and it is used in some orchestral music. Some famous orchestral pieces calling for saxophone are Ravel's Bolero and his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Some classical composers have written solo concertos for saxophone with orchestra, including Glazunov and Ibert.
trumpet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, drums, clarinet, trombone, upright bass, guitar to name a few. Jazz is however not limited to a certain set of instruments, it can be played on any instrument.
Saxophone
Saxophone