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Tom Gullion: Cat's Cradle
by Joel Roberts
On his new album on Britain's Naim label, Chicago tenor saxophonist Tom Gullion exemplifies one of the qualities too often missing among younger jazz musicians: patience. This is a supremely self-assured, unhurried effort emphasizing mood, tone and timing over mere technique and speed.
Gullion, who played in J.J. Johnson's band in his early twenties, has a rich, gentle tenor sound that owes a lot to middle-period Coltrane; which is to say he plays loping, harmonically complex lines that remain highly ...
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Saxophonist Tom Gullion Presents Carswell" -- Adventurous Jazz on Momentous Records
Release Date: October 27 Musician, saxophonist, and composer Tom Gullion has built a reputation as an intuitive, emotional, and melodic player. During the past two decades, his varied career has included periods of intense performance and also of introspective creativity, and he has emerged as a major force in the contemporary jazz scene. Now, at the peak of his musical maturity, he is launching a new album entitled Carswell ...
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Kevin Lynch voted Carswell as one of the top 10 new releases of 2009!
"...one of the most consistently strong jazz records to come out this year." by Pico