Lenny Pickett played all over the place.  Tower of Power’s horn section has performed with a variety of other artists including Santana, Heart, Poison, Phish, and more.

Lenny Pickett has since performed live and recorded with Rod Stewart, Elton John, Little Feat, Peter Gordon’s Love of Life Orchestra, Doc Kupka’s Strokeland Superband, and many rock and jazz albums and film and television soundtracks.  Pickett’s management’s bio describes his music as “polyphonic extravaganzas which manage to touch base with r&b, funk, swing, Latin influence and the avant-garde; horn lines twist around one another, shifting and building in intensity.”

He has worked as a saxophonist and arranger for David Bowie, the Talking heads, and Laurie Anderson.  As a composer he has been commissioned to write works mixing classical and popular ideas for a variety of ensembles including the New Century Saxophone Quartet.  Due to his strange and wild self taught style, his techniques are endlessly discussed on Internet forums, where players speculate on his fingering, whether or not he’s using double or triple tounging, often asking each other “What is Pickett doing?!??!”

He is currently a professor of jazz saxophone for New York University.