Larry Schneider (born July 26, 1949) is an American jazz saxophonist.
[1] He attended the University of Massachusetts, where he studied biology but in 1970 he decided to become a professional musician instead.
[1] 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.
[1] 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.
[2] 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