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Dave Tofani: Nights At The Inn

Read "Nights At The Inn" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
December 14, 2007

Saxophonist Dave Tofani is one of those jazz musicians that you have heard a thousand times without even knowing it. He is a first call studio musician, and but one of the ways he is recognized is that he has won the Most Valuable Player award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences not once, but three times, besides being nominated on five woodwind instruments: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, flute and clarinet. Nights At ...

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Dave Tofani Quartet: Nights At The Inn

Read "Nights At The Inn" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 9, 2007

Saxophonist Dave Tofani sounds as if he'd fit right in with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, somewhere between Johnny Hodges and Ben Webster. That's the thought on hitting the play button on Nights At The Inn, to hear Tofani and his quartet swing hard into Duke's “Angelica." The band--a working unit that has been doing a regular gig at the Deer Head Inn in the Poconos [United States] for the past year--has a robust synergy as they duplicate their vibrant live ...