bio

Bob "Mr. Sax" Paskowitz is one of the premiere players in the New England jazz
community. He has studied with Jackie McLean, Dave Liebman and Donald
Sinta. Bob worked with studio veteran Denny Bayless in "Sweet Butter 'n' Jam"
from 1997-2000, a stint which included performing at the Litchfield Jazz
Festival, winning recognition in the Hartford Advocate Readers' Poll in 1999
and 2000, and recording at Chuck Rubano's Capture Productions Studios in
Coventry, CT. Click onto the Capture Productions Studios link to go to Chuck's
website and listen to a free MP3 download of Bob with Sweet Butter 'n' Jam
playing "Steamroller Blues".

Paskowitz has collaborated with internationally-renowned multi-reedman
Anthony Braxton and pianist Trudy Silver on a live CD entited "Damn the Rules"
that was recorded in Greenwich Village, NYC. Bob has performed in a variety of
ensembles in the Northeast since the 1970's, including jump blues artists Tom
Sanders and the Hornets, bluesmen Chris Tofield, Willie Edwards, Don Mazza,
L.A. Jones, Leo Boogie, Larry Willey, Derek James, D. Smith and XY Eli, the
Chicago horn-rock tribute band "Beginnings", the Eagles tribute band
"Desperado", guitarist Eric Leone's bands "Pizazz" in the 1980s and "Serious
Business" in the twenty-first century, and the City Lights and Strictly Swing Big
Bands. "Mr. Sax" has opened for bands like Aztec Two-Step, James
Montgomery, Roomful of Blues and Jr. Walker & the All-Stars at venues such as
the legendary Shaboo Inn in Willimantic, CT and The Sting in New Britain, CT.
Bob worked with actress Angela Bassett in a theater production at the Yale
Drama School in New Haven, CT in the 1980s.

Bob's jazz ensemble experience includes collaborating with well-known
Hartford, CT area players like Paul Brown, Dave Stoltz, Don DePalma and Warren
Byrd. "Mr. Sax" fronted a group with flautist Melvin Jackson of the People of
Goodwill called the "Jazz Ensemble of Hartford" in the late 1980s that appeared
at Real Art Ways, the Reader's Feast in Hartford and Main Street, USA in New
Britain, CT. Paskowitz organized a quartet with Ben Kohn, Jason Schwartz and
Tom Parker called the "BP4" which recorded an outstanding CD at Northern
Track Studio in Wilmington, VT in June 2001. Bob founded the Latin Quarter Jazz
Ensemble in 1998, a band which appeared frequently at the now-defunct Cafe
880 Jazz in Hartford, CT. "Mr. Sax" continues to perform with the Latin Quarter,
one of the foremost Latin Jazz ensembles in New England, and Bob often
collaborates with the Jason Schwartz Project.

Bob has frequently worked with a group of medical doctors from the University
of Connecticut/John Dempsey Hospital Emergency Room in an oldies band
called "The Remedies". Dr. Paskowitz says that "...music has the power to heal,
lift the spirit and put wings on it. When you listen to real music, you are
listening to the sound of the soul, and that is our link to the great beyond.
Simultaneously, we must be conscious of the contradictions of our relative
existence and continue to strive and struggle for meaningful social change."

"The act of listening to or playing music is a revolutionary act in itself, for with
consciousness, it defies the intentions of the ruling or capitalist class to
destroy music as a part of art, culture and the free or independent thought that
undermines the power of that class. Thank you for supporting our music and
helping to keep the dream alive."