Andrew Gutauskas

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Andrew Gutauskas (* around 1985 in Waterbury , Connecticut ) is an American jazz musician ( baritone saxophone , composition , also arrangement , soprano saxophone , bass clarinet , flute ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Gutauskas grew up in Southington , where he graduated from Southington High School in 2000 . After studying at Disney College in Anaheim , where he played in the Disney Collegiate All Star Band in 2001 , he earned a Bachelor of Music from William Paterson University . After working as a real estate attorney's assistant, he continued his training at the Juilliard School in 2010 , where he studied with Joe Temperley in the Artist Diploma program . Since then he has worked as an instrumentalist on Broadway , for television , films and as a session musician with a variety of artists from pop to jazz , such as Michael Bublé , Paul Simon , Andy Grammer , Alice Ripley , Laura Benanti , Lena Hall , Frank Wess , Joshua Redman , Gil Goldstein , Stefon Harris , Raj Pandit and Bhoomi Trivedi . In 2017 he composed and arranged music for the short film Baby Won't You Please Come Home (with Michelle Hurst and Melanie Nicholls-King ). In 2018 he was involved in Miho Hazama's Grammy-nominated production Dancer in Nowhere .

Gutauskas is currently musical director of the Brass Against formation and a member of several projects, including the Lucas Pino No-Net, Miho Hazama M Unit, Uptown Jazz Tentet, Terraza Big Band, New Alchemy Jazz Orchestra , Steven Feifke Big Band, Robert Edwards , Charlie Rosen Broadway Big Band, Kyle Saulnier Awakening Orchestra and the Bill Mobley Big Band In the field of jazz, he was involved in ten recording sessions between 2011 and 2018; with the Dan Pugach Nonet he was nominated for a Grammy in 2019 . In 2017 he released the EP Look Up! Under his own name . in front.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b interview
  2. ^ Wall of Honor induction celebrates lifetime achievements
  3. ↑ a b Andrew Gutauskas, baritone Sax.Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 (English).
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2019)
  5. ↑ Nicole Zuraitis (Grammy)
personal data
SURNAME Gutauskas, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (baritone saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterbury , Connecticut