Claire Daly
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Claire Daly baritone saxophonist and composer.
Daly began to play jazz as a teen after hearing a big band perform at a community center in Westchester County, New York, where she grew up. She attended Berklee College of Music. She taught at Jazz at Lincoln Center's middle school jazz program for 10 years.
Daly has won the Down Beat Critics' Poll "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" six times and in 2018, 2017 and 2005 won the Jazz Journalists Association's "Baritone Saxophonist of the Year".
Discography
As leader
- Swing Low (Koch, 1999)
- Movin' On (Koch, 2002)
- Heaven Help Us All (Daly Bread, 2004)
- Baritone Monk (NCBC Music, 2012)
- 2648 West Grand Boulevard (Glass Beach, 2016)
- Rah! Rah! Ride (Symbol, 2020)
As guest
- Joe Fonda, Loaded Basses (CIMP, 2006)
- Joel Forrester, In Heaven (Koch, 1997)
- George Garzone, Moodiology (NYC, 1999)
- Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz (Savant, 2011)
- J. C. Hopkins, Underneath a Brooklyn Moon (Tigerlily, 2005)
- J. C. Hopkins, Meet Me at Minton's (Harlem Jazz, 2016)
- Kit McClure, Some Like It Hot! (Red Hot, 1990)
- Taj Mahal, Like Never Before (Private Music, 1991)
- Tribecastan, New Deli (Evergreene Music, 2012)
- Warren Smith, Old News Borrowed (Blues Engine, 2009)
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Categories:
- Living people
- Jazz musicians from New York (state)
- People from Westchester County, New York
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century American women musicians
- 20th-century saxophonists
- 21st-century American musicians
- 21st-century American women musicians
- 21st-century saxophonists
- American female composers
- American jazz baritone saxophonists
- American jazz composers
- Female jazz composers
- Female jazz saxophonists