Introducing Saxophonist Anthony Ware

This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. When Anthony Ware was a fourth grader at the Hillcrest Elementary School in Somerset, NJ, he had the opportunity to select a musical instrument to learn. “We had our pick of instruments,” he recalled. “I had always seen this saxophone in my father’s closet, and I’d heard storiesand#151;’Your father played saxophone.’ I fell in love with it after we began.” When he was in the eighth grade, a friend and fellow saxophonist, Irwin Hall, brought him some flyers from the Jazz Institute of New Brunswick… [ read more ]