Larry Schneider (musician)


Larry Schneider is an American jazz saxophonist.

Early life

Schneider was born in Long Island in 1949. He attended the University of Massachusetts, where he studied biology but in 1970 he decided to become a professional musician instead.

Later life and career

After relocating to New York City, Schneider played as a sideman in the 1970s with Billy Cobham, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Horace Silver, Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond, and Bill Evans. Around 1980 he moved again, to San Francisco, where he worked with Hein van de Geyn and John Abercrombie, and increasingly played in Europe in the later 1980s and 1990s, with François Jeanneau, the Orchestre National de Jazz, Marc Ducret, François Méchali, Alain Soler, André Jaume, Éric Barret and others. After music, his second passion is tennis.

Discography

As leader

With Ray Anderson
With Billy Cobham
With Miles Davis and Quincy Jones
With Marc Ducret
With Bill Evans
With George Gruntz
With The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
With Horace Silver
With Jody Watley
With Chris Potter and Rick Margitza