BIOGRAPHY
Dan Wilensky has toured and recorded with hundreds of artists, including Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Santana, Steve Winwood, Donna Summer, R. Kelly, Melissa Manchester, Faith No More, Hall & Oates, Freddie Jackson, Linda Eder, Mark Murphy, James Brown, Deborah Harry, Manhattan Transfer, David Bowie, and Madonna. He has played on numerous commercial jingles, film soundtracks and TV themes, including The Nanny, Hollywood Squares, Sex In The City, ESPN Sportscenter, The Montel Williams Show, A Chorus Line and Hairspray, and can be heard on over 250 records. In 1986, Wilensky won a National Endowment for the Arts award for jazz performance and composition. He has led or been a member of dozens of bands, notably Slickaphonics, Jack McDuff, Who It Is! (featuring Cornell Dupree, Richard Tee, Will Lee and Steve Gadd), and Rick Derringer’s house band for Joy Behar’s Way Off Broadway. Currently, Wilensky performs, records, and teaches in New York and vicinity. His CDs, his book, "Musician!," and his method book, "Advanced Sax," are available everywhere. More info at www.danwilensky.com
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