Jean Toussaint

Jean Toussaint ( born July 27, 1957 Aruba, Lesser Antilles ) is an American jazz saxophonist.

Toussaint began his musical career as a calypso players on Saint Thomas before he studied from 1978 to 1982 at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He toured in 1979 with a rhythm-and - blues band and founded with Wallace Roney a quintet. From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, with whom he recorded also.

In 1987 he was invited by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, to teach there. He worked among others in London with Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner and the Gil Evans Orchestra and released eight Aben own. He leads a quartet and performs in a duo with guitarist Lionel Loueke. In addition, he also teaches at Trinity College of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Discography

• Impressions of Coltrane
• What Goes Around, 1991
• Whose Blues
• Life I Want to Darren Abraham, Wayne Batchelor, Ciyo Brown, Clifford Winston, Mark Mondesir, Jean -Michel Pilc, Jason Rebello, Tony Remy, Dennis Rollins, Nana Tsiboe, Karl Van Den Bossche, Cleveland Watkiss, 1996
• Back To Back
• Nazaire Who's Blues by Nick Cohen, Julian Joseph, Jason Rebello, Tony Van Den Bossche Remym Karl, Steve Washington, 1991
• The Street Above The Underground, 2000
• Blue Black with Anga Diaz, Robert Hurst, Mulgrew Miller, Bill Mobley, Jeff Tain Watts, 2001
• Continuum ' Act One ' with Gary Bartz, Donald Brown, Bill Mobley, Billy Killson, Esiet Esiet

Lexical entry =

• Barry core field (Editor) New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Macmillan 1996

• Jazz saxophonist
• American musician
• Born in 1957
• Man