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John Gross ''(né'' John Curtis Gross; born in 30 May 1944 Burbank, California) is an American saxophone, flute and clarinet player. Gross is known as a musician's musician, a mainstay,〔D. Clark, ''Vancouver Courier'', December 1994〕 and in 1994, ''Saxophone Journal'' called him one of the most meaningful players on the American jazz scene.〔Tim E. Price, ''Saxophone Journal'', Dorn Publications, May/June 1994 〕 Gross is a jazz original, an improviser, a versatile accompanist and creator of a notational method called ''Multiphonics for the Saxophone''. ==Early career== Raised in a musical family, he launched his professional career at age eight in Los Angeles, playing the clarinet for the L.A. County Parks and Recreation Youth Orchestra. Gross studied clarinet with Phil Sobel and Vito Susca, and saxophone with Ronnie Lang and John Graas. As a child and youth Gross played in the Burbank Youth Symphony, All-Southern California Junior High School Orchestra, American Youth Symphony, L.A. All-City High School Band, I.O.F. Robin Hood Youth Band, and Sepulveda Youth Band. At fourteen Gross was playing at the Gas House in Venice Beach, the epicenter of L.A. Beat culture (which led to a police visit, and the threat of juvenile detention for John and his date). John earned his jazz improv chops in L.A.’s jazz scene playing at venues such as the Hillcrest Club on Washington Boulevard〔Gioia, Ted ,"West Coast Jazz,1945-1960", University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0-520-21729-2, p.355〕 with jazz greats such as Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Gary Peacock, and Horace Tapscott, who were participants of the scene at the time, and the shapers of L.A. jazz. At age sixteen Gross dropped out of the California State University, Northridge, and hit the road with Harry James. The band was playing on a bill with the famous crooner Billy Eckstine (“My Foolish Heart”). Gross continued to work in top-level bands in the early '60s, touring with Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mathis, Stan Kenton, and Woody Herman. In the mid '60s Gross was playing at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach with regulars Warne Marsh, Lou Ciotti, Frank Strazzeri, Putter Smith, Dave Parlato, Abe and Sam Most, Jimmy Zito, Hart Smith, Sal Nistico, Frank De La Rossa and Dave Koonse.〔Chamberlain, Safford, “An Unsung Cat, The Life and Music of Warne Marsh”, Scarecrow Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8108-3718-8, p. 149〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Gross (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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