Saxophonist Bob Mintzer is a twenty year member of the Grammy award winning Yellowjackets who also leads a Grammy winning Big Band, travels with his own Quartet, and plays with numerous bands globally.
A respected educator, Bob is the recipient of the Buzz McCoy
endowed chair of jazz studies at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles. Based in Los Angeles, Bob continues to conduct clinics and workshops worldwide. He has also written nearly twenty books which are an important part of the curriculum of Jazz education worldwide.
Bob writes for
orchestra, concert band and big band, with over two hundred charts to his credit. His big band music is performed by groups all over the planet. Bob honed his big band writing and playing skills in the bands of Tito Puente, Buddy Rich and Thad Jones-Mel Lewis.
He has also written works for the National Symphony Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra of the Netherlands. WDR Big band in Cologne, HR Big Band in Frankfurt, and was commissioned to write a piece for concert band and tenor sax ("Go") by a consortium of 50 universities.
As an instrumentalist Bob has worked with Art Blakey, Jaco Pastorius, Sam Jones, Randy Brecker, Gil Evans, the Yellowjackets, GRP All Star Big Band, Mike Manieri, and The New York Philharmonic, to name a few. He has done session work for James Taylor, Steve Winwood, Queen, Donald Fagan, Milton Nascimento, and countless others.
Latest News
May 12, 2012 -
Check out what some of the cats from my Big Band (Michael Davis, Lincoln Goines, Peter Erskine, Russ Ferrante and Scott Wendholt) have to say about "For The Moment" in a video called "All About Bob" 
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April 02, 2012 -
View the video where Bob talks about sitting in with Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Village Vanguard.
Mar 30, 2012 -
The Bob Mintzer Big Band featuring Kurt Elling and Chico Pinhiero will play a four night engagement at the Bluenote Tokyo on June 20 - 23rd, in celebration of their new recording For the Moment on the MCG Jazz label. Click to view a video preview
Mar 07, 2012 -
New Video Lesson - Attack, Sustain, Decay. Bob Mintzer's second video lesson focuses on the way notes are played. This twelve minute streaming lesson, which you can access at any time on any device, will be of great interest to all horn players, and sax players in particular, because in music, the way notes are attacked, sustained, and decay, in great part determine your sound and style as an instrumentalist. Check out this Sneak Preview.
Oct 17, 2011 -
New! Take a video lesson with Bob Mintzer. "The Sound of the Saxophone" is a fourteen minute streaming video with unlimited viewing that was produced for saxophone players seeking to develop their own unique voice. After analyzing some of the great sax voices, Bob demonstrates his own approach, both in words, and on the horn. If you can't study with Bob one to one, this is the best way to tap into his wealth of experience. View the Preview.
April 07, 2011 -
Signed copies of Canyon Cove with Larry Goldings-organ Peter Erskine- drums, and Bob Mintzer-tenor sax, bass clarinet, and flute is available on the cd page. 
Mar 19, 2011 -
My new jazz etude book "12 Medium-Easy Jazz, Funk, and Blues Etudes"
is now available in the publications section. The play-along, with Russ Ferrante, William Kennedy, and Edwin Livingston, turned out really great!
Get a signed copy here!