Steve Wilkerson

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Steve Wilkerson (* Oklahoma ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone and clarinet ), music teacher and composer .

biography

Steve Wilkerson performed professionally in his father's dance band at the age of eleven. He studied at the University of Tulsa on a scholarship and was an alto saxophonist in the college's jazz ensemble. After earning a bachelor's degree in classical clarinet, he won the Downbeat Combo Award . After graduation he went on tour with the Stan Kenton Orchestra; then he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a tenor saxophonist. With Joey DeFrancesco he recorded the saxophone / organ album A Blue Sorta Thing (2000); he can be heard on the baritone saxophone on the following album Shaw 'Nuff , which the Jazz Journal International selected as one of the most important albums of the year. He also recorded a number of albums with his wife Andrea Baker for his own label, Dana Records.

He has also recorded with Shelly Manne and the Frank Capp Juggernaut Band ( Soft as Velvet ) and performed with Clark Terry , Mel Tormé , Sarah Vaughan , Nancy Wilson , Herbie Hancock , The Temptations , Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow . Wilkerson taught jazz at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California for 16 years and had master classes at various universities.

In 2006 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Dave Nathan in All about Jazz
  2. ↑ Review by Dave Nathan (2001) baie all About Jazz
  3. ↑ a b Wilkerson in the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame 2006
personal data
SURNAME Wilkerson, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trombonist and copyist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century