Fostina Dixon

Fostina Dixon Kilgoe (born August 16, 1956 in Wilmington (Delaware) as Fostina Dixon ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , vocals , composition , also vibraphone and bass clarinet ).

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Dixon, who has been strongly influenced by African American gospel music from childhood , learned the clarinet and baritone saxophone in school . She initially studied medicine, but a year later she switched to the Berklee School of Music , where she also learned other woodwind instruments . While still a student, she began playing in Marvin Gaye's backing band for two years . She then moved to Los Angeles, where she played in the bands of Gerald Wilson and Jimmy Cleveland and accompanied Sammy Davis Jr. and Nancy Wilson . Then she founded her own ensemble Collage , with which she also performed her own works.

She toured nationally with her band Winds of Change . In the late 1980s she was with her then husband James Blood Ulmer several times in Europe. Since 2003 she has also directed the Wilmington Youth Jazz Band . She also worked with Melba Liston , Abbey Lincoln , Barry Harris , Earl May and the Big Apple Jazzwomen. She has also performed with Gil Evans , Roy Ayers , Tom Browne , Charlie Persip , Cab Calloway , Slide Hampton , Frank Foster , Joe Williams , Bobby Vinton and Prince . She can also be heard on albums by Leo's Sunshipp , Lesley Drayton, Major Holley , Calvin Weston ( Dance Romance ) and the Fat Boys .

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SURNAME	Dixon, Fostina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kilgoe, Fostina Dixon (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician (saxophone, vocals, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilmington, Delaware