Sentence examples for featured tenor from inspiring English sources

He remained the band's featured tenor saxophonist until 1975, a year after Ellington died and his son, Mercer, took over.

A full-time engagement as the first featured tenor saxophonist with Duke Ellington (1940 43) brought Webster into his own, and he matured as a soloist and unique musician.

As did many other bandleaders after World War II, Herman dissolved his band in 1946, but within months he formed his Second Herd, featuring tenor saxophonists Zoot Sims and Stan Getz.

Almost 10 years after his last studio album, the 64-year-old singer is preparing to release two new records, including one featuring tenor Andrea Bocelli.

8 p.m. KTLA Great Performances This new episode attends the Vienna Philharmonic's spring concert with conductor Lorin Maazel saluting Richard Wagner and Giuseppi Verdi and featuring tenor Michael Schade.

A series of entertainment and other activities continues this weekend with the Annual Little Italy Mario Lanza Singing Competition, featuring tenors from the New York and Philadelphia areas.

"John Ramsay," which featured the tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm as a guest soloist, stretched its syncopations across a supple 7/8 groove.

Both of these projects featured the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who would become an ideal partner for Ms. Sutherland in the bel canto repertory.

As conceived, this production was to have featured the tenor Rolando Villazón as the poet, wild-eyed dreamer and delusional lover Hoffmann.

With Blue Note, he would become one of the top figures in the field that became known as soul-jazz, unpretentious working-class music that usually featured a tenor saxophonist and an organ and that had a circuit of small clubs in black neighborhoods across the country.

Tomorrow night at 8 and 10 30: an evening of trumpet-and-tenor arrangements featuring the tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene in tandem with Mr. Sickler on trumpet.