Jazz Articles about Tom Strohman

Tom Strohman/Steve Rudolph: In Our Prime

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2001

From western Pennsylvania comes a quartet of players who play with loose precision as they work their way through a set of familiar and original material. The result is what one might call sophisticated bop. There's plenty of improvising, expanding on the bop figures that were laid by the inventors of the style in the late 1940's with little agitation. Led by Tom Strohman on a variety of saxophones, the clarinet and flute and by the steady pianism of Steve ...