William Edward Saxton (born June 28, 1946, in New York City) is an American hard bop tenor saxophonist.
He studied clarinet, composition and arrangement at the New England Conservatory in Boston, graduating in 1973 and worked with Pharoah Sanders, Jackie McLean and Bennie Maupin. He began working with Dannie Richmond in 1979, and he later worked with Charlie Persip's big band and Errol Parker. He has worked with Frank Foster, Clark Terry, Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Roy Ayers, Bobby Watson and Roy Haynes. He was a Friday-night regular at Nick's jazz pub in Harlem, before he fulfilled a dream of his and opened "New York's only Jazz Speakeasy", "Bill's Place", on West 133rd Street in Harlem in 2006.
Discography
As leader
Beneath the Surface (Nilva, 1984) with John Hicks, Ray Drummond, Alvin Queen
Atymony (Jazzline, 1993) with Carlos McKinney, Omar Avital, Noel Parris
As sideman
With Billy Gault
When Destiny Calls (|SteepleChase, 1974) With Dannie Richmond Ode to Mingus (Soul Note, 1979)With Ted Curson I Heard Mingus (Interplay, 1980) With Big John Patton Blue Planet Man (Evidence, 1993) With Jimmy Ponder Mean Streets – No Bridges (Muse, 1987)
References
External links
Official site
Hard bop saxophonists
American jazz tenor saxophonists
American male saxophonists
1946 births
Living people
Musicians from Harlem
Jazz musicians from New York (state) 21st-century American saxophonists 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians