Jazz Articles about Marques Tuiasosopo

Marques Tuiasosopo Sextet: Remembering Heidi

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2003

Performing mostly classic tunes from the Jazz Wayfarers’ archives, Marques Tuiasosopo’s Polynesian Jazz ensemble offers a mellow session with a little fa’alifu fa’i on the side.

Over the past fifteen years, the front line in Tuiasosopo’s sextet has always been strong; the personnel changes have been frequent, but the cohesiveness has always been there, and they function as one. Like the popular horn units of Blood, Sweat & Tears, James Brown, and Tower of Power, the Tuiasosopo ...