David Schnitter

A fantastic hard bop tenor saxophonist most influenced simply by Dexter Gordon, David Schnitter’s rise in the jazz world in the 1970s preceded the “youthful lions”; regrettably, he has managed a lower profile because the early ’80s. After beginning on clarinet, Schnitter completely turned to tenor when he was 15. He performed locally, relocated to NY, gigged with Ted Dunbar, and was an associate of Artwork Blakey’s Jazz Messengers from 1974-1979. He caused Freddie Hubbard from 1979-1981, and experienced organizations with Frank Foster, Charles Earland, and Groove Holmes. David Schnitter sounded good on numerous information with Blakey so when a innovator for Muse during 1976-1981, however, not enough continues to be noticed from him since.