Jazz Articles

Bud Shank Sextet: Silver Storm

by Todd S. Jenkins
January 1, 2001

I doubt anyone could have come up with a more suitable title for an album than this. Six veteran gray foxes of West Coast jazz, with a collective 300 years of experience, blow clean through an incendiary set that sharply belies the “cool” image with which they’ve come to be associated.

Unlike so many aging jazz legends, Bud Shank and friends keep improving with age. Longtime fans of Shank may have noted the abrupt change in his approach to jazz ...