When The Sax Man Plays: His Return

Meet Mark Rivera, Billy Joel's sax man for the past 36 years

On May 9th, , Stepanov performed with the band SunStroke Project at Eurovision , during which he performed a new sax solo while wearing a tuxedo and sunglasses shown below. Ultra Sax Guy" shown below, right. Moldova debuted at Eurovision in and has participated every year since, however they failed to qualify for the finals in May 10, at Epic Sax Guy's message to his fans.

May 20, at Imagine if other old memes were to come back. I can just imagine walking outside into a beautiful, sunny morning and suddenly seeing a flying pop tart cat zoom across the sky, while simultaneously hearing news of a man being kicked into a large hole for the sake of an Ancient Greek city. Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution. By using this site, you are agreeing by the site's terms of use and privacy policy and DMCA policy.

Epic Sax Guy (also known as Saxroll) is the nickname given to Sergey Sergey Stepanov gave a memorable instrumental solo with his saxophone. . There even are sites where the melody is played over and over again. That day, NY Mag published an article titled "The Hero We Need – Epic Sax Guy Has Returned .". Billy Joel and his band, including longtime sax player Mark Rivera, For Billy Joel fans, he's the man who has been playing the saxophone for Joel for more . 29, Rivera returns to Salt Lake City along with Joel and the rest of.

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For the first time he found himself on the fashion pages, discussing the clothes he planned to wear to the Oscars show. It was inevitable that Gordon would be a towering presence at the Academy Awards.

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At 6 foot 5 inches, he has always been a prepossessing, soft-spoken figure with a ready smile. During an interview he spoke even more softly than Dale Turner, the character he played in " 'Round Midnight," with even longer pauses.

Gordon was in poor health and in retirement when Bertrand Tavernier approached him to do the movie. He denies, however, a statement by Herbie Hancock, the Oscar-winning musical director of the film he also played the Paris nightclub pianist , that Gordon had "just gotten out of the hospital" and is "the kind of guy that never practices.

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I had only made one session with him, when he recorded 'Watermelon Man,' back in Let's keep it simple. Gordon's way, in the course of a career that stretches back to , has been strewn with the obstacles that were endemic to much of the jazz community when he was growing up in his native Los Angeles.

Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution. But the genuinely jazz acts were as packed as the pop ones, and crowds strolled happily between them under the baking sun. Even more striking was the way he and trumpeter Byron Wallen and trombonist Dennis Rollins evoked the ecstatic three-part melodic weave of New Orleans jazz, before breaking out into invigorating solos. Last time he appeared at the Barbican he disappointed his fans by retreating modestly into the background. A sense of underlying melancholy gathered, sharpened in one number by the way she brought back a brief sotto voce snatch of the opening melody, making it feel like a memory. Drawn by Stepanov's showmanship on stage, the video clip instantly went viral on YouTube and spawned quite a few remix videos, as well as a bait-and-switch prank known as "Sax-rolling" in the same vein as Rickrolling. Like us on Facebook!

Being black was not the only problem--the temptation of narcotics came into his life early. Ironically, his first acting assignment came about as a result of his difficulties. In the mids, he served a two-year sentence for narcotics violations in Chino, and while there took part in a low-budget prison movie called "Unchained," playing a musician.

Then, because New York laws in those days prevented musicians with police records from acquiring a cabaret work card, he set out for Paris and settled, in , in Copenhagen. Though there were several long return visits to the States, Denmark remained his home base for the next 18 years. He was featured in a Danish version of "The Connection" on stage, and in a Danish movie.