WVincenzo "Enzo" Avitabile is an Italian saxophonist, composer and singer-songwriter. He plays a fusion of world music and jazz fusion music, rooted in Neapolitan traditions and characteristic dialect.
WMagnus Bakken is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer. He was born in Lillehammer.
WStefano di Battista is an Italian jazz musician who plays soprano and alto saxophone.
WRenato D'Aiello is an Italian saxophonist living in London, England.
WSnake Davis is an English session musician who has played with many prominent artists. In the 1980s he fronted York band Zoot and the Roots.
WGerhard Rochus "Gerd" Dudek, is a German jazz tenor saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.
WHans Dulfer is a Dutch jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone.
WTony Kofi is a British jazz saxophonist and flautist. He leads a trio and quartet and is co-founder of the Monk Liberation Band. His trio includes drummer Winston Clifford and Hammond B3 organist Anders Olinder. Kofi is signed to the Specific Jazz label. He has twice won BBC Jazz Awards: Best Instrumentalist in 2008 and Best Album in 2005 for 'All Is Know'. Tony joined Grand Union Orchestra in 1998 and has been a prominent player ever since.
WGuy Lafitte was a French jazz saxophonist.
WSteve Lehman is a composer and saxophonist in the genres of jazz and experimental music. His compositions have been performed by a number of international performers and orchestras. As a performer, Lehman leads a number of his own ensembles and performs frequently as a sideman with artists like Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran. His recording Travail, Transformation & Flow was chosen as the #1 Jazz Album of the year by The New York Times. Lehman’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Down Beat magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Wire, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Lehman was a Fulbright scholar from 2002-2003. He has a B.A. (2000) and M.A. (2002) in composition from Wesleyan University and received his D.M.A. (2012) with distinction in composition from Columbia University. He is currently a professor of Music at the California Institute of the Arts, near Los Angeles.
WZbigniew Jacek Namysłowski is a Polish jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, cellist, trombonist, pianist and composer born in Warsaw, perhaps best known for appearing on the Krzysztof Komeda album Astigmatic. He has collaborated in the past with such artists as Janusz Muniak, Leszek Możdżer, Vladislav Sendecki, Michał Urbaniak and Andrzej Trzaskowski.
WJonah Parzen-Johnson is a baritone saxophonist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up on Chicago's South Side. He completed a Bachelor of Music in jazz studies at New York University in 2010, and a Master of Music in jazz saxophone at Manhattan School of Music in 2012. In Chicago, Parzen-Johnson studied under Mwata Bowden, a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
WTivon Pennicott is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
WFelix Slováček is a Czech clarinetist, conductor, film composer, and saxophonist. He is married to the Czech actress Dagmar Patrasová.
WArturo Tappin is a smooth jazz and jazz/reggae saxophonist from Barbados.
WGregory Tardy is an American jazz saxophonist, who has released albums for the record labels SteepleChase Records, J Curve Records, and Impulse! Records. As of May 2015 he is teaching at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has played with Elvin Jones, Avishai Cohen, Aaron Goldberg, Brad Mehldau, and Joshua Redman, among others.
WFrank Vaganée is a Belgian jazz saxophonist and composer. He has his own trio with Philippe Aerts recently replaced by Rosario Bonnacorso on the double bass, and Dré Pallemaerts on drums. He is co-leader of the Frank Vaganée/Mike Del Ferro Quartet and also is the artistic leader of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. He won the Belgian Golden Django award for best artist in 2001.