Noah Kaplan

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Noah Kaplan (* 11. September 1984 ) is an American jazz - saxophonist .

Live and act

Kaplan grew up in Topanga Canyon , California and began his music career in the Los Angeles area. From 2002 he studied at the New England Conservatory with Joe Maneri and Jerry Bergonzi ; In 2005 he received a scholarship from the Jonathan Keith Foundation , studied microtonal music and became a member of the Miwokido Kid jazz quartet , where he combined microtonality with jazz. After graduating in 2007, he founded the PLAY! hosted by the Boston Microtonal Society . In the late 2000s he worked with David Tronzo ( The Light and Other Things 2008), Jason Nazary and Giacomo Merega . Together with his wife, the singer Rosalie Kaplan, he works in the quartet Dollshot (album of the same name in 2011) with material from classical modernism . In the same year his album Descendants appeared on HatHut , which he recorded with Joe Morris . In 2017 Kaplan released the album Cluster Swerve . In addition, Kaplan u. a. with Mat Maneri , Peter Erskine , Alan Pasqua , Anthony Coleman , Art Davis , Randy Peterson , Ed Schuller and Pandelis Karayorgis . He lives in Brooklyn, New York .

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Individual evidence

  1. Descendents album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 3, 2012.