william00smith
Musician in Sioux City, IA
- william00smith
- 28 years old, Male, Sioux City, Iowa, 51106
- Member #
- 223607
- Member since
- 24 Aug 2008
- Last activity record:
- Active over 1 month ago
- Instruments played:
- Saxophone
- Genre:
- Funk, Jazz, R&B
- Screen name:
- william00smith
- Location:
- Sioux City, Iowa, 51106
- Gender:
- Male
- Age:
- 28 years old
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years playing music:
- 10
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 6-7 nights a week
- Most available:
- Nights
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About
It would be very true to say my life is music. I attended Slippery Rock University's music college in Pennsylvania and studied with many professionals on piano and saxophone. I mainly focused on jazz, trying to model my sound and style after Joshua Redman and the late Michael Brecker. While studying under my studio teacher Terry Steele, I developed my ear for improvising over many differnt styles of music including comtemerary jazz, R&B, soul, various styles of blues, country and even rock.
Later in my performing I started expanding my listening to modern R&B, live hip hop bands and Neo-soul learning and performing some of todays hottest artists. This really started opening my mind up to a lot of new possibilities on the saxophone now trying to grasp the sounds of Ryan Zoidis and Sam Kininger of the funk/R&B horn band Lettuce. I now freelance in the Midwest performing with various artists in Omaha, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, and everywhere in between.
contact cell: 412-953-7160
or check out my website
myspace.com/william00smith
Influences
Everyone I have the pleasure playing with.
Equipment List
Tenor sax
- king Super 20
- SR Tech Fusion mouthpiece
Alto sax
- Selmer Series II
- SR Tech Legend mouthpiece
Electronics
- rack mount tube pre amp
- multi effects pedals
- bell mic