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Two Japanese win prizes in international sax competition in Belgium

Hirai, 23, from Hyogo Prefecture, took fourth place while Igarashi, 21, from Gunma Prefecture, came in fifth in the prestigious competition. ....

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Charles Gayle, Saxophonist of Fire and Brimstone, Dies at 84

An intense and uncompromising player, he made music that one critic said was more about “motion and spirit” than tonal centers, rhythms and melodies. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Verified Live 20240604 15:24:00

You ve got emily sande. this isn t the token jazz album, is it? do you know what? i m really grateful you said that. i don t feel like we re a token jazz band, and i don t i ve never seen jazz as a token artist kind of thing. i feel like even pastjazz musicians that have been nominated for this amazing award, like nirbhaya garcia, like sons of kemet, i never really saw them as token. so for me, music s music and i m just glad and really grateful to be amongst such great music. for people who don t know what is happening in londonjazz scene in the moment. man, it s really beautiful, i think where you would have had like an indie scene a few years ago. what s beautiful is that instrumental music with saxophones, with trumpets embedded in a jazz origin, it s really popular and you ve got people playing it all over clubs, all over bars, and now it s been wonderful to see it happen on big stages and big festivals. so it sjust, like i keep saying, just amazing to be a part of it. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Verified Live 20240604 16:54:00

Who do not know what is happening in the london jet scene at the moment? is really beautiful when you were divided into the scene earlier, the instrumental music with saxophones and trumpets and it s really popular and trumpets and it s really popular and we ve got people playing at all of the clubs and all of her bars and now it s been wonderful to see it happen on big stages and big festivals and it s what they keepsake, just amazing to be a part of we keepsake, ust amazing to be a part 0 ., , keepsake, ust amazing to be a part of we have seen you go from one to two niahts of we have seen you go from one to two nights to of we have seen you go from one to two nights to the of we have seen you go from one to two nights to the roundhouse - of we have seen you go from one to two nights to the roundhouse and l two nights to the roundhouse and coming up, the royal albert hall. i m as shocked as you are, it started in tiny clubs, started in tiny pubs and i remembered to this sure t ....

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At 80, the Saxophonist Billy Harper Is Still a Towering Force

He spent years playing with Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and Max Roach, earning praise for his sax’s piercing cry. He’s still composing and turning heads live. ....

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