Joel Frahm

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Joel Frahm in Aarhus, Denmark (2013)
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Joel Frahm (born October 31, 1970 in Racine , Wisconsin) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

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Joel Frahm first learned to play classical piano and bassoon before switching to the tenor saxophone at the age of 14. His family moved to Hartford , Connecticut in 1985 , where he attended the jazz program in high school. During this time he met the pianist Brad Mehldau . At the age of 17, Joel Frahm and Brad Mehldau performed every week in a club in Hartford, and occasionally in New York. Frahm then studied at Rutgers University and completed his bachelor's degree at the Manhattan School of Music . During this time Joel Frahm played with various blues and jazz bands in New York and finally got to know the drummer Matt Wilson and the pianist David Berkman , with whom he worked frequently from then on.

Frahm has also worked with Maynard Ferguson , the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and Larry Goldings . After becoming a semi-finalist at the Thelonious Monk Competition in 1996, he worked with a quartet of pianists David Berkman, Doug Weiss and Matt Wilson and recorded his debut album Sorry, No Decaf for the Palmetto label in 1998 . Joel Frahm played in Matt Wilson's band in the late 1990s and also worked with Omer Avital , Jane Monheit , Dena DeRose and Jim Cifelli .
In 1999 he and his quintet recorded the album The Rains froma Cloud Do Not Wet the Sky for the Nabel label in Berlin , on which violinist Gregor Huebner and pianist Tim Sund participated. The album The Navigator was created in 2000 with Berkman, bassist Scott Colley and Billy Drummond . In 2007 he recorded the album We Used to Dance with Kenny Barron , Rufus Reid and Victor Lewis . In 2019 he leads a trio with Doug Weiss (bass) and Anthony Pinciotti (drums).

Discographic notes

  • Don't Explain (Palmetto, 2004)
  • We Used to Dance (Anzic, 2007)
  • Ernesto Cervini: There (Anzic, 2011)

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