Biography

Patience Higgins, from Greenville, South Carolina, is a renowned saxophonist and multi-reed instrumentalist.

Higgins has been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra for the last twenty years. He has also toured and recorded with Frank Foster and Count Basie Orchestra, Savion Glover, Aretha Franklin, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Muhal Richard Abrams, Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers, Barry Harris, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Watson & Tailor Made, David Murray, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Scott, Paquito D’Rivera, Nicolas Payton, Rodney Kendrick, Yoko Ono, Hamiett Bluiett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Pointer Sisters, Don Byron, Vanessa Roubin, Cleo Lane, and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet.

Higgins has performed in many Broadway shows including Avenue Q, Dreamgirls, and The Wiz. He has performed at nearly every jazz festival in the world, and is featured in a score of movie soundtracks.