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Instruments
  
Saxophone

Genres
  
Jazz

Education
  
The Hartt School

Name
  
Wayne Escoffery

Website
  
escofferymusic.com


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Born
  
February 23, 1975 (age 49) London, England (
1975-02-23
)

Albums
  
Hopes And Dreams, If Dreams Come True, Playdate, Back Home, The Only Son of One, Intuition, Veneration, Uptown

Similar People
  
David Kikoski, Jeremy Pelt, Ron Carter, Orrin Evans, Adam Holzman

Profiles

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Wayne Escoffery (born 23 February 1975 in London, England) is a jazz saxophonist based in New York City.

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Performing history

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Since 2000, he has been working in New York City with Carl Allen, Eric Reed, and the Mingus Big Band. Other musicians performed with include Ralph Peterson, Ben Riley, Ron Carter, Rufus Reid, Bill Charlap, Bruce Barth, Jimmy Cobb, and Eddie Henderson. He has worked with vocalists including Mary Stallings, Cynthia Scott, Nancie Banks, LaVerne Butler, and Carolyn Leonhart.

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In addition to performing with his own Quartet featuring David Kikoski, Ugonna Okegwo and Ralph Peterson, Escoffery currently performs and tours with Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Septet, The Mingus Band, Ron Carter's great Big Band, Monty Alexander, Amina Figarova and many others. He is currently a member of The Tom Harrell Quintet and has been since 2006. He has also co-produced four of Harrell's latest recordings.

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In 2014 Escoffery won the 62nd Annual Downbeat Critics Poll for rising star on the Tenor Saxophone and in 2010 won a Grammy with The Mingus Big Band.

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All About Jazz's J. Robert Bragonier said that Escoffery "is a talented youngster capable of long, flowing lines, noteworthy creativity, and a broad range of expressiveness."

Biography

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Wayne and his mother emigrated to the United States and settled in New Haven, Connecticut in 1986.

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At age eleven, Escoffery joined The New Haven Trinity Boys Choir and began taking saxophone lessons from Malcolm Dickinson. At sixteen, he left the choir and began a more intensive study of the saxophone, attending the Jazzmobile in New York City, the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. During his senior year in high School, he attended the Artists Collective, Inc. in Hartford, Connecticut. He met Jackie McLean, a well known alto saxophonist and founder of the jazz program at The Hartt School.

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Escoffery was awarded a scholarship to attend The Hartt School, where he studied with McLean for four years, and earned a bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance summa cum laude in 1997. He then attended the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts (1997–1999). During this time, he toured with Herbie Hancock and performed and studied with several jazz greats. In 1999, he graduated with a master's degree and moved to New York to begin his professional career.

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Escoffery married vocalist Carolyn Leonhart in 2004. The two have one child, have collaborated on many performances, and appear together on several albums.

As Leader

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  • 2001: Times Change (Nagel-Heyer)
  • 2004: Intuition (Nagel-Heyer)
  • 2007: Veneration: Live at Smoke (Savant)
  • 2007: If Dreams Come True – Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery (Nagel-Heyer)
  • 2008: Hopes and Dreams – Wayne Escoffery & Veneration (Savant) - with Tom Harrell
  • 2009: Uptown (Posi-Tone)
  • 2010: Tides of Yesterday – Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery (Savant)
  • 2012: The Only Son of One (Sunnyside)
  • 2014: Live at Firehouse 12 (Sunnyside)
  • 2015: Live at Smalls (SmallsLive)
  • 2016: Black Art Jazz Collective (Sunnyside) - with Jeremy Pelt, James Burton III, Xavier Davis, Vincente Archer, Johnathan Blake
  • With Tom Harrell

  • 2007: Light On (HighNote)
  • 2009: Prana Dance (HighNote) - co-produced by Escoffery
  • 2010: Roman Nights (HighNote) - co-produced by Escoffery
  • 2011: The Time Of The Sun (HighNote) - co-produced by Escoffery
  • 2012: Number Five (HighNote) - co-produced by Escoffery
  • 2013: Colors Of A Dream (HighNote)
  • 2015: First Impressions: Debussy And Ravel Project (HighNote)
  • References

    Wayne Escoffery Wikipedia


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