Sam Newsome

Sam Newsome
"The potential for the saxophone is unlimited." - Steve Lacy



2025 Winter Jazz Festival

2025 Winter Jazz Festival

Friday, November 3, 2017

82nd Annual Downbeat Readers Poll

It was nice to see that I appeared twice in the December 2017 issue of Downbeat: the 82 Annual Readers Poll in the Soprano Saxophone category,  and a nice 4-star review by Howard Mandel.

Good times! In the meantime I'm working the music for a new CD, to be tentatively titled Improvised Music for Prepared Saxophone. This is going to be the craziest one yet!

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