Jazz Articles about Andrew Atkinson

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Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music

by Richard J Salvucci
August 25, 2024

A listener who remembers when saxophone quartets were a novelty--and a controversial one at that--is probably wondering how much the Cost-of-Living Adjustment will be for Social Security in 2025. Yes, the esteemed World Saxophone Quartet kicked up as much a critical fuss in the late 1970s as Ornette Coleman did in the 1950s. Not as “In this jazz?" but as in “Is this music." It is a measure of progress, one suspects, that those battles of ...