David Schnitter

An excellent hard bop tenor saxophonist most influenced by <a href="spotify:artist:3NUsiT2JSyaWAnWaXxDzhQ">Dexter Gordon</a>, David Schnitter's rise in the jazz world in the 1970s preceded the "young lions"; unfortunately, he has maintained a much lower profile since the early '80s. After starting on clarinet, Schnitter permanently switched to tenor when he was 15. He played locally, moved to New York, gigged with <a href="spotify:artist:5UjEzMlPNdJv2UthkvGKBe">Ted Dunbar</a>, and then was a member of <a href="spotify:artist:6ykfXAed2KOLOMI3R0TZdz">Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers</a> from 1974-1979. He worked with <a href="spotify:artist:0fTHKjepK5HWOrb2rkS5Em">Freddie Hubbard</a> from 1979-1981, and had associations with <a href="spotify:artist:1UBOhgHqPdFDiDW3qF1y1d">Frank Foster</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3ud1yQWO0eEL8hVcXyU0Oi">Charles Earland</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7izkpvBGc31hUccjdSNz8k">Groove Holmes</a>. David Schnitter sounded fine on numerous records with <a href="spotify:artist:6QQuESLtKhAOcLW2TeWC2t">Blakey</a> and as a leader for Muse during 1976-1981, but not enough has been heard from him since. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi