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Marchel Ivery: Marchel Ivery 3
by C. Michael Bailey
Trio con carne. This eight song disc is divided in half, each half illustrating a different piece of Tenor Sax history. The first four pieces are performed by a standard organ-tenor trio with the irrepressible Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond B3. The second half is the standard tenor trio as pioneered by Sonny Rollins on such recordings as Way Out West and Live At The Village Vanguard. Marchel Ivery has a tone more narrow and drier than that of Rollins, ...
read moreMarchel Ivery: 3
by Mark Corroto
Tenor saxophonist Marchel Ivery is a walking monument to the Texas tenor sound. Born in 1938, and until of late, not heard much outside the Longhorn State. Ivery has a large sound. Big, like Sonny Rollins, Clifford Jordan, Joe Henderson, or fellow Texan James Clay. His music is a timeless jazz born in the bebop era and built on a blues inflection. No gimmicks, guffaws, or light shows. Marchel Ivery is old school. This, his third release for Leaning House, ...
read moreWessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Jack Bowers
Every so often, floating above the over–abundance of cookie–cutter mimes who overspread today’s mainstream Jazz scene, one hears a fresh and earnest new voice that causes him to do a double–take and say to himself, “Did I hear what I thought I heard?” That was my wholly unanticipated reaction as I listened for the first time to Wessell Anderson’s high–powered concert date recorded last May at New York’s Village Vanguard. Here’s a player with great chops, copious soul and prolific ...
read moreDonald Edwards: In the Vernacular
by Jack Bowers
Perhaps I’ve become too — what’s the word I want — jaded? Spoiled? Whatever. The fact is that in spite of the complimentary liner notes by Ellis Marsalis, I couldn’t find much to get excited about while listening to drummer Donald Edwards’ debut, In the Vernacular — even with one of the contemporary scene’s shrewdest young trumpeters, Nicholas Payton, helping to stoke the fire. Everyone plays competently enough — although Wessell Anderson’s honking, screeching alto on “Duke of Duckland” is ...
read moreWessell Anderson: Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson Live at the Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
Big Alto Saxophonists. A copy of Sherman Irby's new disc, Big Mama's Biscuits (also reviewed this month) recently crossed my desk and got me to thinking about alto saxophone players who were also physically large men, such as the corpulent Irby. While this specialized population would include Bird when he was healthy, I was thinking more along the lines of Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and those that followed him. I went on to listen to a lot of Cannon's music, from ...
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