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Steve Slagle is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer. He has released over 30 albums as a leader and has performed with a wide variety of jazz artists, including Dave Liebman, John Scofield, and the Mingus Big Band. Slagle was born in Los Angeles, California, and began playing saxophone at the age of nine. He attended the University of North Texas, where he studied with saxophonist Joe Henderson. After graduating, he moved to New York City and began performing with a variety of jazz musicians, including Dave Liebman, John Scofield, and the Mingus Big Band. Slagle has released over 30 albums as a leader, including the Grammy-nominated albums The New Hang (2005) and Alto Manhattan (2008). He has also performed on numerous albums as a sideman, including Dave Liebman's Grammy-nominated album The Puzzle (2006). Slagle has been a member of the Mingus Big Band since its inception in 1991, and has performed with the band at the Village Vanguard, the Kennedy Center, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. He has also performed with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. Slagle is currently a professor of jazz saxophone at the Manhattan School of Music. He has also taught at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, the Juilliard School, and the New England Conservatory.

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Occupation Musician
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 18 September 1952
Birthday 18 September
Birthplace Los Angeles, California
Nationality United States

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2015

In 2015, his duo recording with pianist Bill O'Connell, a tribute album to Kenny Drew Jr. was released as The Power of Two. In February 2016, Routes (by the Stryker/Slagle Band-Expanded) was released. It was produced by Rick Simpson, with 4-horn arrangements by Steve Slagle. With much critical acclaim, Routes reached #2 on the national radio charts.

2014

Slagle plays and endorses Yanagisawa saxophones — the WO-10 alto saxophone and S9930 soprano saxophone. Steve has also been a long time player of Haynes flutes. On tenor sax, Steve plays a mid-60's Selmer Mark VI, and on baritone sax, a 1947 Silver Conn.

2011

In 2011, Slagle published a composition and improvisation workbook for the creative musician, and stories about his life in "Scenes, Songs and Solos" (Schaffner Press).

1980

In the mid-1980s, global and especially Latin influences began to inflect Slagle's work, and he appeared on albums by Milton Nascimento and recorded Rio Highlife in Brazil. He toured frequently worldwide during the 1990s and 2000s, especially in Western Europe, Japan, South America and, latterly, Russia and Bulgaria. During the 1990s, he was a leading figure in the Charles Mingus Big Band. Ever since the late 1990s, Slagle has co-led a band with guitarist Dave Stryker. New New York, his 2000 release, has been seen as an evocation of the city's mood on the verge of 9/11 and an expression of Slagle's love for the city he has made his home. He has played with such diverse artists as Milton Nascimento, St. Vincent, Elvis Costello, the Beastie Boys, and Mac Rebennack (aka Dr. John). Slagle has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers, The New School, NYU, and clinics through the Thelonious Monk Institute as well as the Mingus Jazz Workshop and master classes and clinics worldwide.

1976

Slagle was born in Los Angeles and grew up in suburban Philadelphia. He received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music and received a master's degree in Music From Manhattan School of Music.. He came to New York in 1976, first working with Machito and his Afro-Cuban orchestra, and then toured and recorded with Ray Barretto, Steve Kuhn, Lionel Hampton, Brother Jack McDuff, and Carla Bley. He also performed and traveled with Woody Herman and Cab Calloway. In the mid-1980s, he began leading his own combos, first with Mike Stern and then with Dave Stryker; the combo is currently the main focus of Slagle's music. He has also played frequently with Joe Lovano and has featured on several of Lovano's albums, including the Grammy-winning 52nd Street Themes.