Mike Phillips at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club

Music superstar Prince knows what audiences around the world also know. When Mike Phillips puts his saxophone to his lips, magic is about to happen.

Experts know greatness. Thats why Phillips is the only musician in the world to have recorded and toured with the legendary Big Three of American soul music: Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Prince.

But you dont have to be a music deity to appreciate Phillips gifts.

In a short time, the New York native has exploded on the world music scene becoming the jazz man with hip-hop flavor known for blowing away audiences on stage, television and with chart-topping recordings....

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Music superstar Prince knows what audiences around the world also know. When Mike Phillips puts his saxophone to his lips, magic is about to happen.

Experts know greatness. Thats why Phillips is the only musician in the world to have recorded and toured with the legendary Big Three of American soul music: Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Prince.

But you dont have to be a music deity to appreciate Phillips gifts.

In a short time, the New York native has exploded on the world music scene becoming the jazz man with hip-hop flavor known for blowing away audiences on stage, television and with chart-topping recordings.

Phillips and his soulful yet funky grooves brought standing ovations at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival and the inaugural balls for Presidents Clinton and Obama.
“I was offstage, listening to Michael Phillips take his solo. I was thinking ‘Wow, listen to those people responding, and all he’s doing is playing a saxophone.’ They can feel that what he’s doing is real. So many shows now…they are so dead. But here’s one manbreathing into an instrument, and the whole room feels alive. It made me want to rise up to that level when I came back onstage.” ---Prince, Rolling Stone, 5/27/04

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