George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician. He began his professional career at twenty-one, as a jazz guitarist.

Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. He then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. A one-time child prodigy, he topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin', He was a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s, and still has a large following. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt. He has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

History of Dave Koz

Dave Koz (born in Encino, California, March 27, 1963, age 49 years) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

Koz followed William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California and performed with saxophone as a member of the school jazz band. He then graduated from UCLA with a degree in mass communications in 1986, and only a few weeks after graduation, he decided to become a professional musician. Within a few weeks after the decision, he was recruited as a touring member of Bobby Caldwell. During the remainder of 1980, Koz served as a session musician in several bands, toured with Jeff Lorber. Koz is a member of Richard Marx's band and toured with Marx throughout the late 1980s. He also played in the band was short-lived CBS The Pat Sajak Show, with Tom Scott as the leader of the band. [1]
In 1990, Koz decided to pursue a solo career, and began recording for Capitol Records. Her album there include Lucky Man, The Dance, and Saxophonic. Saxophonic nominated for both a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award.


Below are some of the instruments created by dave koz:

1. Again togther
2. You Make Me Smile
3. Face of The Heart
4. Lucky Man
5. The Dance
6. and much more.

History of Saxophone

Saxophone come from Belgium, made ​​by a clarinet player and instrument maker named Adolphe Sax in early 1840. About how the emergence of the idea of ​​making Saxophone itself is not clear, and experts concluded that one possibility is born of the experimental results Saxophone Sax with Clarinet, Adolphe Sax also famous for its redesign Bass Clarinet, with two separate registers an octave instrument.

Although according to research Saxophone born in 1841, but more appropriate if the year of his birth is at Sax patented his creation in 1846. Sax patents Saxophone 2 family includes the family of the orchestra (in C and in F) and the family band (in Bb and Eb in).

Use of this Saxophone pertaman time to surface by the Companions of the Hector Berlioz Sax in 1942. its use in the orchestra is very rare, only a few are using it like a classical composer Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, and the German composer Richard Wagner.

Saxophone technical developments can be divided into two phases, namely when the patent valid and afterwards Sax. In the first phase, change and progress is slow, and saxophone mechanism is simpler, more similar to the clarinet. But after the patent runs out in 1866, appears much Saxophone maker that eventually lead to a more rapid development technically. even so, in the 150 years of its development, the basic foundation Saxophone is not much changed from the initial design. at first saxophone widely used in military bands. Until well into the 1900s, saxophone slowly began widely used, one of them in the show and dance band Vaudeville replace the violin.