Newark, New Jersey
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tenor saxophonist.
Allmusic
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Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with
Ted Dunbar
Earl Theodore Dunbar (January 17, 1937 – May 29, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator.
Career
Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Dunbar trained as a pharmacist at Texas Southern University, but by the 1970s he only did pharma ...
Muse Records
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Fields worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s. Several of the albums were previously released on Cobbleston ...
from 1976 to 1981. Schnitter has been currently performing regularly at
Smalls Jazz Club
Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. Established in 1994, it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places ...
and Fat Cat in Manhattan, as well as touring in Europe. He has been on faculty at the
New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
School of Jazz and Contemporary Music is the second conservatory of The New School. It is located on West 13th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. It was known as The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music before it wa ...
since 1994.
Discography
* ''Invitation'' (
Muse
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CIMP
Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz record company and label. It is associated with ''Cadence Magazine'' and Cadence Jazz Records. The label is noted for its minimal use of electronic proc ...
, 2008)
* ''Nursery Rhymes for the 21st Century'' (Cimp, 2010)
* ''Live at Smalls'' (Smalls Live, 2011)
With Art Blakey
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Gypsy Folk Tales
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In My Prime Vol. 2
''In My Prime Vol. 2'' is an album by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded in 1977 and released on the Dutch Timeless label.In This Korner
''In This Korner'' is a live album by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco in 1978 and released on the Concord Jazz label.Concord Jazz
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Philips
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981
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Events
Births
* Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi, Arab statesman (d. 1027)
* Giovanni Orseolo, Venetian ...
With
Richard "Groove" Holmes
Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of " Misty".
Career
Holmes's first album, on Pacific ...
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Shippin' Out
''Shippin' Out'' is an album by jazz organist Groove Holmes recorded in 1977 and released on the Groove Merchant label the following year.Fitzgera;ld,M. & Zielgler, FMuse Records listingaccessed February 8, 2019
Reception
Allmusic's Scott Yano ...
'' (Muse, 1978)
With
Johnny Lytle
Johnny Dillard Lytle (October 13, 1932 in Springfield, Ohio – December 15, 1995 in Springfield) was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist.
Life and career
Lytle grew up in Springfield, Ohio in a family of musicians, the son of a trumpeter father ...
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Everything Must Change
''Everything Must Change'' is the debut studio album by singer Randy Crawford released in 1976 on the Warner Bros. label.
Background
It was recorded and mixed at Hollywood Sound Recorders except " I'm Easy" and "I've Never Been To Me", which, a ...
'' (Muse, 1977)
With
Red Rodney
Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927 – May 27, 1994), known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940 ...
979
Year 979 ( CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* March 24 – Second Battle of Pankaleia: An Ibero-Byzantine expeditionary ...