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The risk with a new Joe Lovano recording is that listeners may hear the résumé before the band. The Blue Note Records years, the long triangular history with Paul Motian and Bill Frisell, and the more austere ECM Records terrain of Trio Tapestry (2019) all sit close to the surface of Lovano's sound. Paramount Quartet quickly makes that kind of listening insufficient. This is not Lovano arranging familiar authority around new personnel; it is a band record in which his ...

Album Review

Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet

Read "Paramount Quartet" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 26, 2026

Saxophonist Joe Lovano built a formidable recorded legacy on Blue Note Records, beginning with 1990s Landmarks, running through 1999's 57th Street Themes and 2013's Soundprints --among many other albums on the famed label. But a side outlet for his artistry emerged on ECM Records, beginning with his side man slot on drummer Paul Motian's Psalm (1982). Though he boasts dozens of other side man appearances on ECM Records, he did not release an album under his own name for the ...