Rivera plays the saxophone for Billy Joel, but over a storied career he’s also played his horn for Hall & Oates, John Lennon, Foreigner and Peter Gabriel. One of Gabriel’s top hits ...

When that failed, Billy found himself adrift. Circa 1977, Joel’s band included drummer Liberty DeVitto, bassist Doug Stegmeyer, Joel and sax player Richie Cannata.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...

But for the multi-instrumentalist — who's spent 40 years playing mostly saxophone for Billy Joel and has worked with Foreigner, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall and John Oates and Ringo Starr's All ...

“I was very fortunate to play with Richie Cannata [Joel’s saxophone player] many times in New ... “Guy’s got chops!” Billy Joel hasn’t toured in over three years, but he often speaks ...

It had been six years since Billy Joel last played a concert ... Mind,” which climaxed with a kind of piano-saxophone call and response between Joel and Rivera. Everyone in the band had their ...

Byrnes will be inducted by the “Piano Man” himself, Billy Joel. Byrnes ... instrumentalist and vocalist Crystal Taliefero and saxophone player Mark Rivera. Byrnes will receive the Long ...

Billy Joel paid homage to the Kansas City Chiefs Saturday ... I hope someone from KC explains to @billyjoel’s poor trumpet/sax player that they were not booing him, they were doing some Chiefs ...

“We’ll come back,” Billy Joel promised the crowd on ... the powerhouse percussionist, sax player and singer. Image Joel reminded the crowd Thursday that his band had played the Soviet ...

including Joel, as well as Billy’s former drummer Liberty DeVitto and longtime sax player Mark Rivera. “I am so sorry to hear that David Brown has passed away,” the Piano Man wrote.