Adrian Crutchfield has taken the world by storm in recent years, not only as the last sax player to perform and record with Prince, touring the world and being featured on Prince’s last three albums, but also touring domestically and internationally with acts such as Lionel Ritchie, Bette Midler, and Cee-Lo Green — all the while writing and building his 2017 release titled ‘Leap’.
In jazz, Mr. Crutchfield has been featured by names such as Kim Waters, Mike Phillps, Alex Bugnon, Jeff Lorber, and Branford Marsalis; and with legendary groups such as Fourplay and The Gap Band featuring Charlie Wilson.
Adrian is a 2008 graduate of Florida State University (B.A. in Music with a concentration in jazz, contemporary media, and commercial music).
Although young, this saxophone aficionado is one of his generation’s most prolific and successful professional musicians.
In this episode, we talked about:
- how Kenny G inspired him to play saxophone
- the #1 lesson he learned from performing with Prince
- the Harry Potter connection between the magical world and the musical world that helps him relate to his fans
- why singers were his biggest influences when he first started playing
- and so much more in this Epic almost 2 hour interview!
Catch the YouTube video HERE
Adrian’s Links:
Website: http://adriancrutchfield.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adriancrutchfieldmusic/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodsax
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/adriancrutchfield/featured
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realgoodsax/
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Donna,
Thank you for the very interesting interview of Adrian Crutchfield. The written preface for each artist with links is tremendous.These enable you to quickly go back to listen to the artist’s music.
One thing that you might consider is having a time line for your interviews that one commonly sees in the show more section of youtube videos that allows a listener to jump to a particular section of an interview to hear specific parts. This feature could be quite attractive to listeners as not everyone has unlimited time available to listen to interviews.
Doron Orenstein on BSWE has done an interesting set of relatively short artist interviews with specific music student related questions for the artist and in other cases a set of specific topics the artist has elected to cover for the aspiring musician. Don’t know if this info could be helpful.