Pete Yellin
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| Birth name | Peter Michael Yellin |
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July 18, 1941 San Francisco, California |
| Origin | United States |
| Died | April 13, 2016 (aged 74) |
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| Associated acts | Buddy Rich, Bob Mintzer, Maynard Ferguson |
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| Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piccolo, clarinet | |
Peter Michael "Pete" Yellin (July 18, 1941 – April 13, 2016) was an American jazz saxophonist and educator. He lived most of his life in New York and later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he had lived since 2006.
Yellin is the son of a former NBC studio pianist, and he learned his first musical lessons from his father. He began playing in the late 1950s after hearing the alto saxophonist Art Pepper. He turned down an athletic scholarship at the University of Denver and came back home to New York to study at Juilliard under Joseph Allard (saxophone), Augustine Duques (clarinet) and Harold Bennett (flute). After graduation from Juilliard he started to work in the New York area. He went on to earn a Master's degree in saxophone at Brooklyn College.
During the 1960s he went on to work with Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, and Tito Puente; he also worked with Joe Henderson's band from 1970 to 1973. Later in the 1970s he would go on to play with Mario Bauza, Hampton again, Maynard Ferguson, Sam Jones, Charles Earland, and The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. In 1974 he formed his own band and was featured at the Newport Jazz Festival.
As a sideman, Yellin has worked extensively with Bob Mintzer, Eddie Palmieri, George Benson, Machito, Chick Corea, to include many others.
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