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Melvin Smith
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Melvin Smith, "soulful sax man and well musically educated award winner" (Chris Spector-Midwest Record Review), is a native of Jacksonville, Florida who began playing saxophone at the age of thirteen. During his early musical development Smith was fortunate to have great musical experiences like performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival and a European tour. Smith attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he received an excellent education in music. Smith later received a Master's Degreein Jazz Studies from Queens College in New York. Since moving to New York Melvin has had the opportunity to play with such artists as Charli Persip, Kim Burell, Hubert Eaves III, Ben Vereen, Michael Henderson, and Norman Connors
Perseverance
By Melvin Smith
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sound for Sore Ears; Karita; Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; A Letter to the
Ancestors; Beatitudes-Interlude; One by One; Gettin’ It; Beatrice; Perseverance; Golden;
Beatitudes.
Melvin Smith: Perseverance
by Jack Bowers
Perseverance, Florida-bred saxophonist Melvin Smith's seventh album as leader of his own group, is a hard-blowing session on which he shows (again) that he is one of the leading bop-based reed masters on today's scene. On soprano or tenor, Smith displays a clarity of purpose and storehouse of astute phrases that serve him well at any ...
Portrait
By Melvin Smith
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007
Track listing: Lord I Lift Your Name On High; Go Down Moses/Wade in the Water; Manasseh; Trylenera (part 1); Someday We'll All Be Free; 1750 Washington St.; God Bless the Child; Trylenera (part 2); We Shall Overcome.
Melvin Smith: Portrait
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is nothing newfangled here, but if mainstream bebop jazz saxophone is to your interests, then you will give this debut high marks. Melvin Smith is a native of Jacksonville, Florida. Armed with a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, he was also honored there with the Lennie Johnson Award after graduation. Smith ...
Melvin Smith: Portrait
by John Barron
Using gospel elements in a jazz context can be a hit-or-miss proposition. Depending on the background and integrity of the musicians involved, the results can often be trite, or shamelessly bent towards commercialism. Upon hearing Portrait it's obvious that saxophonist/composer Melvin Smith is equally adept in both genres. Smith is able to successfully blur the lines ...
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