Larry Schneider (musician)

Larry Schneider (born July 26, 1949) is an American jazz saxophonist.

Early life
Schneider was born in Long Island in 1949. He attended the University of Massachusetts, where he studied biology but in 1970 he decided to become a professional musician instead.

Later life and career
After relocating to New York City, Schneider played as a sideman in the 1970s with Billy Cobham, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Horace Silver, Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond, and Bill Evans. Around 1980 he moved again, to San Francisco, where he worked with Hein van de Geyn and John Abercrombie, and increasingly played in Europe in the later 1980s and 1990s, with François Jeanneau, the Orchestre National de Jazz, Marc Ducret, François Méchali, Alain Soler, André Jaume, Éric Barret and others. After music, his second passion is tennis.

As leader

 * So easy (Label Bleu, 1988)
 * Just Cole Porter (SteepleChase, 1991)
 * Blind Date (SteepleChase, 1992)
 * Bill Evans... Person We Knew (SteepleChase, 1992)
 * Mohawk (SteepleChase, 1994?)
 * "Freedom Jazz Dance"  (Steeplechase) 1996
 * Ali Girl (SteepleChase, 1997)
 * Summertime in San Remo (Splasc(h), 1997)
 * Ornettology (SteepleChase, 1998)
 * Lemon Lips (Splasc(h), 2000)
 * It Might As Well Be Spring (SteepleChase, 2000)
 * Jazz (SteepleChase, 2001)
 * "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Steeplechase)  2003.

As sideman
With Ray Anderson With Billy Cobham With Miles Davis and Quincy Jones With Marc Ducret With Bill Evans With George Gruntz With The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra With Horace Silver With Jody Watley With Diederik Wissels Quartet With Chris Potter and Rick Margitza
 * Big Band Record (Gramavision, 1994)
 * A Funky Thide of Sings (Atlantic, 1975)
 * Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux (Warner Bros., 1991 [1993])
 * Le Kodo (Label Bleu, 1989)
 * Affinity (Warner Bros., 1979) with Toots Thielemans
 * We Will Meet Again (Warner Bros.,1979)
 * First Prize (Enja, 1989)
 * Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra With Rhoda Scott  (Barklay, 1976)
 * Live in Munich (Horizon, 1976)
 * Silver 'n Percussion (Blue Note, 1977)
 * Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres (Blue Note, 1979)
 * Jody Watley (MCA, 1987)
 * Malinka (Timeless Records, 1987)
 * Jam Session Vol. 1 (SteepleChase, 2002)