Gene “Daddy G” Barge, a well-rounded saxophone player, songwriter and Grammy-winning producer, has died. He was 98. His daughter says Barge died in his sleep in his Chicago home on Skip to main ...

NEW YORK — Gene “Daddy G” Barge, an admired and durable saxophone player ... of professional football before playing clarinet with his high school marching band inspired him to try music.

Meanwhile, Piggot was named the 2024 saxophone player of the year by the nationally ... Patterson, who was a band instructor, played at the Williamsburg Lodge and at the old Wagon Wheel, a ...

“I was in the band,” she said, laughing. “I played alto saxophone ... on the field readying coolers of Gatorade for the football players while watching the pregame ceremony.

and dreamed of professional football before playing clarinet with his high school marching band inspired him to try music. He took up the tenor saxophone shortly after ending a two-year stint in ...

yet the sax/trumpet quintet model endures in his imagination, impelling him and the band toward a broad and swinging lyricism. A rural North Carolina native, Ellis came of age musically in New ...

“He prided himself on his arrangements but he really loved, just loved playing, the saddest part of the last six years of his life was that he wasn’t able to play sax, which was his first love ...

Dave Matthews Band is a favorite in Alabama, with a long history of concerts in the state. The band performed in recent years at The Wharf in Orange Beach and the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, and ...