{"id":11046,"date":"2018-12-29T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.252.102.210\/~micklabr\/?p=11046"},"modified":"2018-12-29T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:06:00","slug":"joe-lovano-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micklabriola.com\/joe-lovano-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Lovano Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Salvatore Lovano<\/b> (born December 29, 1952)<\/sup> is an American jazz<\/a> saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist,<\/sup> and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world’s premiere tenor saxophone players, described by critic Chris Kelsey of Allmusic as “the tenor titan for our times” and relentlessly creative and innovative,\u00a0<\/sup>earning a Grammy Award and several mentions on Down Beat<\/a><\/i> magazine’s critics’ and readers’ polls. He is married to jazz singer Judi Silvano<\/a> with whom he records and performs. Lovano was a longtime member of a trio led by drummer Paul Motian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Sicilian-American<\/a> parents; his father was the tenor saxophonist Tony (“Big T”) Lovano.\u00a0<\/sup><\/sup>His father’s family came from Alcara Li Fusi<\/a> in Sicily, and his mother’s family came from Cesar\u00f2<\/a>, also in Sicily. In Cleveland, Lovano’s father exposed him to jazz throughout his early life, teaching him the standards, as well as how to lead a gig, pace a set, and be versatile enough to find work. Lovano started on alto saxophone at age six and switched to tenor saxophone five years later. John Coltrane<\/a>, Dizzy Gillespie<\/a>, and Sonny Stitt<\/a> were among his earlier influences. After graduating from Euclid High School<\/a> in 1971,\u00a0<\/sup><\/sup>he went to Berklee College of Music<\/a>, where he studied under Herb Pomeroy<\/a> and Gary Burton<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup> Lovano received an honorary doctor of music degree from the college in 1998.<\/p>\n