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Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music
by Richard J Salvucci
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 ...
Continue ReadingIntroducing Saxophonist Anthony Ware
by Sanford Josephson
When Anthony Ware was a fourth grader at the Hillcrest Elementary School in Somerset, NJ, he had the opportunity to select a musical instrument to learn. “We had our pick of instruments," he recalled. “I had always seen this saxophone in my father's closet, and I'd heard stories--'Your father played saxophone.' I fell in love with it after we began." When he was in the eighth grade, a friend and fellow saxophonist, Irwin Hall, brought him some flyers ...
Continue ReadingThe Radam Schwartz Organ Big Band: Message from Groove and GW
by Jack Bowers
Liner notes notwithstanding, the alliance of a big band and organ is hardly unique—Jimmy Smith, Richard “Groove" Holmes and Joey DeFrancesco are organ maestros who have been there and done that; even the great Oscar Peterson once dipped his toes into that water. Having said that, organist Radam Schwartz and his power-laden New Jersey-based ensemble do the concept proud on Message from Groove and GW, burning on all cylinders and swinging as hard and as often as any band has ...
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