John Gross is an American saxophone, flute and clarinet player. Gross is known as a musician's musician, a mainstay, and in 1994, Saxophone Journal called him one of the most meaningful players on the American Jazz scene. Gross is a jazz original, an improviser, a versatile accompanist and...
29: Billy Joel Billy Joel drew upon a pair of tried-and-true favorites in the Beatles and Tin Pan Alley, creating a new synthesis that made him arguably the best-known singer-songwriter of the late '70s. He continued that winning streak into the next decade while diversifying his sound. ...
If one hadn’t known the title, one wouldn’t know that Bach was the composer being evoked by the piece. It has all the qualities of a Beethoven scherzo: dark, witty, rollicking. Pacifica brought out both its playful qualities and its edge, and they transferred all these qualities to ...