Andy Snitzer, Smooth jazz Artist

Now more than a decade and a half into his world travels as soloist and horn section anchor with Paul Simon, Andy Snitzer had a blast cavorting with musical gods throughout 2014 and 2015, on the historic “On Stage Together Tour” featuring the legendary singer/songwriter, and Sting. Adding more history to those frequent flier miles, the versatile saxophonist toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia.

Now, a few years after soulfully chronicling life on the road (on his groundbreaking 2011 album Traveler), Snitzer explores and celebrates intimate places closer to heart and home, with “American Beauty”.

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Genre: Smooth Jazz, Contemporary, Crossover Jazz, Post-Bop, Soul Jazz

“On Traveler,” Snitzer says, “I wrote many of the songs in cities across the globe, responding to inspiration from some beautiful, exotic, foreign place; but a place that I was not from. American Beauty is a response to that process, a reflection on my home, and my life at home, experiences, people and places, during formative years in the late 70s and early 80s, but also on life as it is now.”

“On Traveler I learned that my best work happens when I start from a position, a thesis, and an overall idea in mind.” Tapping into some senior year high school memories on ‘September ‘79’, summers home from college on ‘Mondays at Gert’s,’ (that long defunct Philly organ bar where Snitzer used to sat-in at the Monday night open jam).  ‘Daddy-O’ is a brassy, blues-funk tribute to a cool hotel bar scene on the NJ shoreline.  All of these are positive reflections on past, joyful times, before all this traveling back, the Philly metro area was my whole world.”

Biographical information courtesy of Andy Snitzer; for more reading see link below.

http://www.andysnitzer.com/about/