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Derrick Michaels full profile / Solo Tenor Saxophone / 1 musician

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Each of these solo performances unfolds spontaneously — a fully improvised expression of this time and place in the abstract, resonated through a 100-year-old tenor saxophone. Performer, instrument, acoustic space, and audience merge into deeper co-existence as each note, phrase, breath draws on our collective energy and attention.

You will recognize familiar musical devices, as the raw materials for music-making are nearly universal across cultural divides...there will be moments of pure melody, moments of thematic development, moments of rhythmic propulsion, moments of textural exploration and extended techniques — all with a through-line that is motivated by a genuine passion for bringing people together through collective, conscious attention to the unfolding of a musical moment.

I am here to share love, tenderness, passion, and compassion through the music that I make. While the music is generated from the singular local source of my tenor saxophone, I cannot over-stress the impact that each audience member's intensity and openness in listening makes on the unfolding of this music. It cannot happen without each one of us.

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Stockade (From Solo Saxophone Vol. 1)

Devotion (From Solo Saxophone Vol. 1)

Arcana (From Solo Saxophone Vol. 1)