EPISODE 035 Chicago Music Revealed with guest Sam Newsome

EPISODE 036 Chicago Music Revealed with special guest Sam Newsome discussing his 3 new releases.

 

About Sam Newsome

New York-based saxophonist and composer Sam Newsome often works in the medium of solo saxophone, an approach for which he gained world-wide critical acclaim with his 2009 recording, Blue Soliloquy: Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone. This recording received a five-star review in Downbeat magazine. 

 

Newsome has since released several critically acclaimed solo saxophone CDs: 

 

• Sonic Journey: Live at the Red Room (2020);
• Chaos Theory: Song Cycles for Prepared Saxophone (2019);
• Sopranoville: Works for Prepared and Non-Prepared Saxophone (2017);
• The Straight Horn of Africa (2014);
• The Solo Concert: Sam Newsome Plays Monk and Ellington (2013); 
• The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1 (2012).