ArtistInfo

Rick Margitza

ts, ss, *1961 US, Detroit
Musician of Jazz
A.k.a. Richard Dean Margitza

Rick Margitza (born October 24, 1961 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Margitza's paternal grandfather, a Hungarian Gypsy violinist, taught him to play the violin at the age of four. His father also played violin with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Following this he played piano and oboe, and settled on tenor sax while in Fordson high school. He attended several colleges: Wayne State University, Berklee College of Music, University of Miami and Loyola University New Orleans. He toured with Maynard Ferguson and Flora Purim in the 1980s, and moved to New York City in 1988, where he played with Miles Davis.

Instruments

• Tenor sax
• Soprano sax
• Saxophone
• Flute

Genres

• Jazz
• Rock

Plays With