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Jeff Rupert Quartet: Sea Spell

by Jack Bowers
July 8, 2026

John Coltrane, commenting on the remarkably silken tones generated by fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, is said to have remarked, “We'd all sound that way if we could." Although Florida-based tenor Jeff Rupert is no Getz clone, the sound he produces on his latest album, Sea Spell, comes so close to mirroring Getz that the impression is downright astonishing, not to mention absolutely gorgeous. The kinship to Getz is most conspicuous in the upper register, which Rupert controls ...