DAN WILENSKY

Hard Bop / Fusion / RnB / Post-Fusion Contemporary / Post Bop • United States
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Dan Wilensky was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved to Berkeley, California the following year. Music was in the air at the Wilensky house: every family member played at least one instrument, and family jam sessions were frequent. He began piano lessons at age 8, and saxophone at 9 after he heard the Duke Ellington Orchestra perform at Berkeley High School. Wilensky flourished in this superb public school music program, and studied saxophone privately with BHS grad Steve Elson, and his teacher, Hal Stein, and classical piano with Julian White. As a teenager, he street played, performed with schoolmates Benny Green, Craig Handy, Paul Hanson and Steve Bernstein, gigged with local bands, won top honors in various competitions, performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival three times, and was a guest soloist with the Woody Herman Orchestra. When he was 17, Wilensky studied for a year with jazz legend Joe read more...
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DAN WILENSKY And Then Some album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
And Then Some
RnB 1997
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If You Only Knew
Hard Bop 2010
DAN WILENSKY Group Therapy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Group Therapy
Fusion 2011
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Back in the Mix
Hard Bop 2012
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Made in Portland
Post Bop 2015
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Good Music
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2018
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All In All
Fusion 2020

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