Pete Christlieb

Pete Christlieb is most likely one particular the world’s most well-known anonymous tenor saxophonists. For a long time, he performed jazz tenor in Doc Severinsen & the Tonight Present Music group. His big, beefy audio and intense solos were noticed mostly in short snippets because the show arrived of commercials, sadly denying the American open public an opportunity to hear an extremely great saxophonist improvise at duration. Though he’s completed good work somewhere else over time, Christlieb’s biggest state to fame from Severinsen as well as the Tonight Show is really a Warner Bros. record he documented in 1978 with fellow tenorist Warne Marsh. Apogee is among the most convincing straight-ahead jazz albums from the ’70s. Christlieb’s cocky, rhythmically guaranteed style contrasts successfully with Marsh’s looser, even more querulous way. The record’s general air of inquisitive abandon foretold (relatively wrongly, since it proved) a shiny upcoming for mainstream acoustic jazz within the arriving decade. Christlieb was created right into a musical family members. He started playing the violin at seven, and tenor sax at 13. After using a number of L.A.-structured bands in the first ’60s, including those led by Chet Baker, Woody Herman, and Sy Zentner, Christlieb joined up with drummer Louie Bellson’s band in 1967, with which he’d continue steadily to play in to the ’80s. His initial record as head was Jazz Town, an LP released in 1971. The tenorist began his very own label, Bosco Information, in 1981; Bosco would concern small-group albums by Christlieb, in addition to information by Bellson and Bob Florence. Christlieb is definitely in demand like a studio room player; he’s performed innumerable sessions of each type. Additional prominent jazz numbers with whom he’s performed include Count number Basie, Benny Goodman, Quincy Jones, and Sarah Vaughan. He offers appeared on several recordings in to the 21st hundred years, frequently in collaborative configurations, including: NIGHT TIME Jazz with Charles Harris and Jim Hughart (2001); Reunion using the past due Hadley Caliman, with whom Christlieb experienced performed at L.A. night clubs in the first ’60s (2010); and Great Bait, a live day with Dutch tenorist Ferdinand Povel documented in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam (2011).