Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano is an American saxophonist and composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952 and best known as a tenor player. The son of Cleveland saxophonist Tony "Big T" Lovano, he studied at Berklee and worked as a sideman before building a long career as a leader, first with Blue Note and later with ECM. Lovano worked with Jack McDuff and Lonnie Smith, spent three years in the Woody Herman orchestra and then joined Mel Lewis's big band in New York. In the 1980s he joined Paul Motian's trio with Bill Frisell, which recorded ECM albums such as It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago.
