About Larry Nozero
Hometown
Detroit, MI, United States
Born
1943
Genre
Jazz
Larry Nozero was a saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, composer, producer, and educator. Raised in and around Detroit, Nozero worked with a wide range of musicians during his career including several legends: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, and Henry Mancini. He also did session work for Motown -- he played the immortal soprano sax solo on Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On"-- and played with the Supremes, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and Eddie Kendricks. He contributed to sessions by Motor City guitarists Dennis Coffey and Ron English, and keyboardist/composer Eddie Russ. Nozero's own recordings include Time (the final release from Detroit's Strata label), Sphere's Inside Ourselves (Strata, 1974), Island Fever, Up to Your Neck, Four for Three: The Music of Eddie Russ, Grand Hotel, Kaleidoscopin', Street of Dreams, Warm, and Live at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival.
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