Sam Sadigursky

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Sam Sadigursky (born April 17, 1979 ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , flute , also vocals , keyboard , percussion , composition ).

Live and act

Sam Sadigursky worked as a professional musician from the late 1990s; after first recordings with Eivind Opkvik and Jacob Sacks ( Spiral , 1999), he played (mostly in New York) with musicians such as Pete Robbins, Jason Rigby ( ranslucent Space , 2005), Jack Donahue , Julie Hardy, Matt Holman and Rob Mosher ; In 2006 he recorded his debut album The Words Project , which included instrumentalists Pete Rende, Nate Radley , Robert Burkhart , Eivind Opsvik and Tommy Crane as well as singers Heather Masse, Becca Stevens , Monika Heidemann and Noam Weinstein. Words Project II followed in 2008 (with Becca Stevens, Monika Heidemann and Wendy Gilles , among others ), and Words Project III: Miniatures in 2009 .

In the field of jazz, he was involved in 18 recording sessions between 2001 and 2016, also with Darcy James Argues Secret Society ( Presents Infernal Machines , 2008), Roberta Piket , Emilio Teubal , Gregory Tardy , Frank Carlberg ( Monk Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares , 2016). He also played with Brad Mehldau , Lucia Pulido , Gabriel Kahane , Edmar Castañeda , Linda Oh , the Mingus Orchestra , Jamie Baum and Pablo Mayor.

For his album Follow the Stick , he was selected in the Rising Star (clarinet) category by Down Beat Magazine's Critic's Poll in 2015. As a composer he wrote works for film and dance; he also published three textbooks for clarinet and saxophone. He has received scholarships from Chamber Music America, ASCAP, and the Jerome Foundation.

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  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 28, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Sadigursky, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 17th 1979