Lenny Pickett

Lenny Pickett () er ein amerikansk saksofonist, fløytist, klarinettist, komponist, arrangør, musikalsk leiar og lærar. Han var medlem av Tower of Power Horns frå 1972 til 1981, og har sidan 1985 spelt saksofon i Saturday Night Live band.  Han har òg vore musikalsk leiar for Saturday Night Live sidan 1995. Han er særleg kjend for altissimo-registeret på saksofonen, som ein kan høyre i kjenninsgmelodien til kvar episode av Saturday Night Live.

Pickett voks opp i Berkeley i California. Han har ingen formell musikalsk utdanning og har ingen skule utover grunnskulen. Utanom ein kort periode i lære hos jazzsaksofonisten Bert Wilson er han sjølvlært på saksofon. 

Han vart med i Tower of Power Horns 18 år gammal og har spelt med Elton John, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Talking Heads, Grayson Hugh og Laurie Anderson. Som komponist har han skrive musikk for gruppa si, the Borneo Horns.

Diskografi
Som leiar
Lenny Pickett with the Borneo Horns
The Prescription (feat. UMO Jazz Orchestra)

Andre

1970-åra

 1972 Why Don't You Try Me? - Earth Quake
 1973 Tower of Power - Tower of Power
 1973 Betty Davis- Betty Davis
 1974 Back to Oakland - Tower of Power
 1974 Caribou - Elton John
 1974 In the Beginning - Roy Buchanan
 1974 Link Wray Rumble - Link Wray
 1974 Monkey Grip - Bill Wyman
 1974 Ron Gardner - Ron Gardner
 1974 Free Bear And Chicken - John Lee Hooker
 1974 For My Love … Mother Music - Jose Feliciano
 1974 Release Yourself - Graham Central Station
 1974 Insane Asylum - Kathi McDonald
 1974 Monsieur - Hiroshi Kamayatsu
 1974 Jezebel - Mary McCreary
 1974 Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat
 1975 In the Slot - Tower of Power
 1975 Not a Little Girl Anymore - Linda Lewis
 1975 Rescue Me - Roy Buchanan
 1975 Secret Sauce - Skyking
 1975 Urban Renewal - Tower of Power
 1975 Tales From The Ozone - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
 1975 Change - Spanky & Our Gang
 1975 Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Rufus
 1975 Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It - Graham Central Station
 1975 Rise Sleeping Beauty - Lenny Williams
 1976 Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now - Tower of Power
 1976 Chameleon - Labelle
 1976 Live and in Living Color - Tower of Power
 1976 Mirror - Graham Central Station
 1976 Nine on a Ten Scale - Sammy Hagar
 1976 Stone Alone - Bill Wyman
 1976 Tom Thumb - Michael Dinner
 1976 A Night On The Town - Rod Stewart
 1976 Impact - Impact
 1976 Affectionate - R. C. Succession
 1976 Hard Candy - Ned Doheny
 1976 Hometown Boy Makes Good - Elvin Bishop
 1976 In Touch - Tommy James
 1976 The Keane Brothers - The Keane Brothers
 1976 The Lost Heritage Tapes - John Kay & Company
 1976 Act Like Nothing's Wrong - Al Kooper
 1976 Gavin Christopher - Gavin Christopher
 1976 White Bird - David LaFlamme
 1976 Jaye P. Morgan - Jaye P. Morgan
 1976 Billy Preston - Billy Preston
 1977 Supersonic Lover - Brian & Brenda Russell
 1977 Big City - Lenny White
 1977 Choosing You - Lenny Williams
 1977 Funk in a Mason Jar - Harvey Mason
 1977 New Directions - The Meters
 1977 Nielsen Pearson Band - Nielson/Pearson Band
 1977 Right on Time - The Brothers Johnson
 1977 Time Loves a Hero - Little Feat
 1977 Marin County Line - New Riders Of The Purple Sage
 1977 Red - Sammy Hagar
 1977 An Insatiable High - Masayoshi Takanaka
 1977 Good News - Attitudes
 1977 Disco Fantasy - Thomas «Coke» Escovedo
 1977 Feel The Fire - Jermaine Jackson
 1977 God Only Knows (45 RPM) - Marilyn Scott
 1977 Funk In A Mason Jar - Harvey Mason
 1977 Right On Time - The Brothers Johnson
 1977 New Directions - The Meters
 1977 The Tim Weisberg Band - The Tim Weisberg Band
 1977 Sierra - Sierra
 1977 Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars - Patrick Gleeson
 1978 Frontiers - Jermaine Jackson
 1978 In Tails - King Biscuit Flower Hour - Journey & Friends
 1978 Before the Rain - Lee Oskar
 1978 Desert Horizon - Norton Buffalo
 1978 Dinner with Raoul - Bliss Band
 1978 Jesse Barish - Jesse Barish
 1978 Crimson Tide - Crimson Tide
 1978 Tattoo Man - Denise McCann
 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Filmmusikk - Peter Frampton
 1978 Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
 1978 We Came to Play - Tower of Power
 1978 What Have You Done for Love - Hodges, James & Smith
 1978 Jet Lag - Nick Chavin
 1978 Never Even Thought - Colin Blunstone
 1978 What Have You Done For Love - Hodges Smith & James
 1978 Winner - Renee Geyer
 1979 Back on the Streets - Tower of Power
 1979 Everything You've Heard Is True - Tom Johnston
 1979 Live & Learn- Elkie Brooks
 1979 Richard Evans - Richard Evans
 1979 Silent Letter - America
 1979 Victim of Love - Elton John
 1979 You're So Good - Helen Reddy
 1979 Muscle Shoals '79 (Rel. 2008) - The James Walsh Gypsy Band
 1979 Magic Lady - Sergio Mendes
 1979 Gonna Getcha' Love - Charles Jackson
 1979 Melissa Manchester - Melissa Manchester
 1979 Everything You've Heard Is True - Tom Johnston
 1979 8 For The 80's - Webster Lewis
 1979 Richard Evans - Richard Evans
 1979 Play It As It Lays - Alica Bridges
 1979 Where I Should Be - Peter Frampton
 1979 Never Been Here Before - Paulette McWilliams
 1979 Silent Letter - America
 1979 Dreams Of Tomorrow - Marilyn Scott

1980s

 1980 The Hawkins Family (Live) - Walter Hawkins
 1980 No Night So Long - Dionne Warwick
 1980 Bebe le Strange - Heart
 1980 Heart Greatest Hits: Live - Heart
 1980 LaToya Jackson - La Toya Jackson
 1980 Heaven Above Me - Frankie Valli
 1981 The Boys Are Back - Stone City Band
 1981 But What Will The Neighbors Think - Rodney Crowell
 1981 Coconuts High - Izumi Kobayashi
 1981 Heart - Heart
 1981 Take It Off - Chic
 1982 Flat-Picking Spectacular - Joe Maphis
 1982 Steve Forbert - Steve Forbert
 1982 Picture This - Huey Lewis And The News
 1984 Civilized Man - Joe Cocker
 1984 Like a Virgin - Madonna
 1984 Tonight - David Bowie
 1984 The Gospel at Colonus [Filmmusikk] - Bob Telson, Donald Fagan
 1984 Leader of the Pack [Filmmusikk] - Various Artists
 1984 Surrender - Robin Clark
 1985 Jeff Lorber - Step By Step
 1985 Live at the Apollo with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks Daryl Hall & John Oates
 1985 Middle of the Night - Taka Boom
 1985 Riptide - Robert Palmer
 1985 She's the Boss - Mick Jagger
 1985 The Heat - Nona Hendryx
 1985 Bump The Renaissance - Bobby Previte
 1985 Confrontation - Face to Face
 1985 Listen Now Do You - Sheena Easton
 1985 Little Creatures - Talking Heads
 1985 Mask of Smiles - John Waite
 1985 Power Station 33 1/3 - The Power Station
 1985 Power Station - The Power Station
 1985 When the Boys Meet the Girls - Sister Sledge
 1985 Dancing In The Street - Mick Jagger & David Bowie
 1986 3 Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine - Daryl Hall
 1986 At Least We Got Shoes - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
 1986 Brutal Dub - Black Uhuru
 1986 Brutal - Black Uhuru
 1986 Heartbeat - Don Johnson
 1986 Home in the Heart of The Beat - Beat Rodeo
 1986 Innocent - Peter Gordon
 1986 Inside Story - Grace Jones
 1986 John Somebody - Scott Johnson
 1986 Press to Play - Paul McCartney
 1986 Secret Dreams & Forbidden Fire - Bonnie Tyler
 1987 Brooklyn - Peter Gordon
 1987 Conjure: Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon - Kip Hanrahan
 1987 Hunger- Michael Bolton
 1987 Is There Rockin' in This House - Terri Gonzalez
 1987 Lenny Pickett With the Borneo Horns - Lenny Pickett
 1987 Never Let Me Down - David Bowie
 1987 Never Never Land - Simon F.
 1987 Strange Weather - Marianne Faithfull
 1988 Remote - Hue And Cry
 1988 Constant Fear - Paranoise
 1988 Direct - Tower of Power
 1988 Distant Trommer - Brian Slawson
 1988 Doble Vida - Soda Stereo
 1988 Groovin' - The Missing Links
 1988 Molly on the Shore - Richard Greene & The Greene String Quartet
 1988 Naked - Talking Heads
 1988 Never Felt So Good - James Ingram
 1988 Ooh Yeah! - Hall & Oates
 1988 Out of Order - Rod Stewart
 1988 Shag - Filmmusikk
 1988 Tear Down These Walls - Billy Ocean
 1989 The Lion for Real - Allen Ginsberg
 1989 Charlie Sexton - Charlie Sexton
 1989 Conscious Party - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
 1989 D'Atra Hicks - D'atra Hicks
 1989 Gutterboy - Gutterboy
 1989 Languis - Soda Stereo
 1989 Mick Jones - Mick Jones
 1989 One Bright Day - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
 1989 One Night of Sin - Joe Cocker
 1989 Signs of Life - Charlie Elgart
 1989 Stay Awake - Hal Willner
 1989 Storm Front - Billy Joel
 1989 Strange Angels - Laurie Anderson
 1989 Whirlwind - Danny Gottlieb

1990s

 1990 Dead City Radio - William S. Burroughs
 1990 In Your Eyes - James D-Train Williams
 1990 Leningrad-Xpress - Peter Gordon
 1990 Passages - Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass
 1990 Place Like This - Robbie Nevil
 1990 Song of the Sun - Jim Beard
 1991 Another Hand - David Sanborn (klarinett, klarinett (Contrabass), Sax (Tenor), Horn Arrangements)
 1991 Sereno - Wilkins
 1991 Signature - Charlie Musselwhite
 1992 Road To Freedom - Grayson Hugh
 1992 Dove - The Roches
 1992 Ese Soy Yo - Emmanuel
 1992 Flowers and Stones - Peter, Paul and Mary
 1992 Get a Little - G.E. Smith & The Saturday Night Live Band
 1992 Gutterboy - Gutterboy
 1992 MTV Unplugged [EP] - Mariah Carey
 1992 MTV Unplugged [MTV Unplugged + 3] - Mariah Carey
 1992 Sun Sun - Casiopea Sax (Tenor)
 1992 Upfront - David Sanborn
 1993 All I Want Is Everything: The Best of Southside Johnn - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
 1993 Arc - Jimmy Haslip
 1993 Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell - Meat Loaf
 1993 I'm No Angel - Carole Davis
 1993 Instruments (A Collection of Instrumentalists on Hannibal)- Various Artists
 1993 Love Scenes - Beverley Craven
 1993 Over My Heart - Laura Branigan
 1993 Ships at Sea, Sailors and Shoes - Ned Sublette
 1993 Short Cuts - Filmmusikk
 1993 Sons of Soul - Tony! Toni! Tone!
 1993 Start a New Race - Paranoise
 1993 T.O.P. - Tower of Power
 1994 Godchildren of Soul: Anyone Can Join - Various Artists
 1994 Hearsay - David Sanborn
 1994 Jewels Chieli Minucci Horn
 1994 Merry Christmas - Mariah Carey
 1994 One Day Closer - Jonathan Edwards
 1994 Whistling in the Wind - Leon Redbone
 1994 Wrestling Album - Various Artists
 1995 Broken Engelske/Strange Weather - Marianne Faithfull
 1995 Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon - Conjure
 1995 Chroniques Bluesymentales - Hubert-Felix Thiefaine
 1995 Cool and Steady and Easy - Brooklyn Funk Essentials
 1995 Greetings from the Gutter - Dave Stewart
 1995 Lady Marmalade: The Best of Patti and Labelle - Labelle
 1995 My Temptation - Vivian Williams
 1995 Real Time - Richard Tee
 1995 Spanner in the Works - Rod Stewart
 1995 White Bird/Inside Out - David LaFlamme
 1996 Bicycle - Livingston Taylor
 1996 Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
 1996 Havana Calling Orlando «Maraca» Valle Y Otra Vision
 1996 Live: The Real Deal [Video] - Buddy Guy/G.E. Smith & the Saturday Night Live Band
 1996 Live: The Real Deal - Buddy Guy
 1996 Living in Fear - The Power Station
 1996 Sheffield Pop Experience - Various Artists
 1996 Strings Attached - Peter Ecklund
 1997 Direct Plus - Tower of Power
 1997 Excess Baggage - Filmmusikk
 1997 Little Queen/Dog & Butterfly/Bebe Le Strange - Heart
 1997 Monsters from the Deep - Ned Sublette & Lawrence Weiner
 1998 Arbors Records Sampler, Vol. 1 - Various Artists
 1998 Kiss My Blues - Tony Z
 1998 Read'em & Weep - Clyde Roberts
 1998 Secret Handshake - Geoff Muldaur
 1998 Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You - Joe Pesci
 1999 Al Confini: Interzone - Various Artists
 1999 Inside - David Sanborn
 1999 Live on Breeze Hill - Rick Danko Band
 1999 She's Lightning When She Smiles - Dave Soldier
 1999 Sip the Wine - Rick Danko Band
 1999 Social Studies - Loudon Wainwright III

2000-åra

 2000 Dinosaur Tracks - Tower of Power
 2000 Kick It up a Step! - Strokeland Superband
 2000 Long Expectant Comes at Last - Cathal McConnell
 2000 Man in a Jupiter Hat - Lee Feldman
 2000 Over the Edge - Professor Louie & Crowmatix
 2000 Pasajes De Un Sueno - Ana Torroja
 2000 Sound Loaded - Ricky Martin
 2000 Sweet on You - Chieli Minucci
 2002 Heathen - David Bowie
 2003 Oakland Zone - Tower of Power (Horn Arrangements)
 2003 Universo Fortis - Alberto Fortis
 2004 John Somebody [Tzadik]- Scott Johnson
 2005 Here Comes Tomorrow - Ursula 1000
 2006 Can't Quit the Blues - Buddy Guy
 2006 Planet jorda - Dennis Chambers
 2006 Silent Letter/Alibi America
 2007 Holly Cole - Holly Cole
 2008 It Is Time for a Love Revolution - Lenny Kravitz
 2008 No Brakes/Mask of Smiles - John Waite
 2008 That's What I Am Here For/Rescue Me - Roy Buchanan
 2008 No Brakes/Mask of Smiles - John Waite
 2008 Easy Come Easy Go - Marianne Faithfull
 2009 Organ Soul Sessions - Lucky Peterson
 2009 Bible Belt - Diane Birch

2010-åra
 2010 Love of Life Orchestra - Peter Laurence Gordon
 2010 Many Mamas, Many Papas - John Phillips
 2010 Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
 2010 30 Rock - Jeff Richmond
 2011 Christmas From the Blue Note
 2011 In Touch/Midnight Rider -Tommy James
 2012 Love This Giant - David Byrne
 2013 Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys

Kjelder
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Bakgrunnsstoff
Lenny Pickett page from New York University site
Article about Lenny Pickett (Cached from IHT website - original article) by Mike Zwerin (International Herald Tribune)
Article about Lenny Pickett by Mike Zwerin (NYTimes)
About Lenny Picket  by Dave Mackey

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