https://youtube/watch?v=Far666SDzU8 Joel Peskin (Tenor Sax solo) started playing the clarinet at the age of nine in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the High School of the Performing Arts, made famous in the movie Fame. He later studied saxophone with teacher Joseph Allard of the Juilliard School of Music and was a protégé and very close friend of saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Peskin is also considered to be one of the world’s foremost EWI (Electronic Woodwind Instrument) players. He co-led his own jazz quintet, the New York Jazz Ensemble, around New York for several years. In late 1968 Peskin moved to Los Angeles and joined the Beach Boys touring with them for five years, leading their horn section, and as featured soloist. In the late 1970s Peskin toured with singer Shawn Phillips, Jerry LaCroix, and Doc Severinsen’s group Xebron. Other artists with whom Peskin has recorded include: Barbra Streisand (including 1994 tour & HBO TV special), Natalie Cole, Kim Carnes, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Dr.John, Marvin Gaye (“Midnite Love”), Smokey Robinson (“Being with You”), Joe Cocker (“You Can Leave Your Hat On”) Beach Boys (“Kokomo”), and Taylor Dayne (“With Every Beat of My Heart”). TV productions on which Peskin has worked include: (TV) Entertainment Tonight (original alto sax theme), 65th Academy Awards, Comic Relief, The Emmies, Knots Landing, The Simpsons, Murder She Wrote, Star Trek, Spenser, Home Improvement, Matlock, and countless others. (Movies) Ace Ventura 1 & 2, Sneakers (playing with Branford Marsalis), Mambo Kings, When Harry Met Sally, Above the Law, The Hard Way, Married to the Mob, Naked Guns 1, 2, & 3, Space Jam, Police Academy, Sabrina, The Little Mermaid, Perfect, Loaded Weapon, Spy Hard, A League of their Own, First Wives’ Club, Forest Gump, Hercules, Conspiracy Theory, George of the Jungle, McHale’s Navy, Nothing To Lose. In 2000, Peskin shot three national Honda commercials playing the baritone sax on camera, and toured Japan with Joe Sample’s Soul Committee featuring drummer Steve Gadd, trumpeter Oscar Brashear. He also scored the music for a TV pilot for Dreamworks TV.
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