Jazz Articles about Bennie Wallace

Bennie Wallace: Moodsville

by Dan McClenaghan
May 18, 2002

Here's another set of standards, a bunch of songs out of The Great American Songbook. The line-up: Tenor sax out in front of the piano/bass/drums rhythm section. Nothing earthshaking here...But it's done on this Moodsville, with such style and reverence, with a distinct muscular-toned tenor flavor.The three rhythm guys on the disc--Mulgrew Miller on piano; Peter Washington, bass; and Lewis Nash doing the drum chores--are all better known in jazz circles than leader/tenor man Bennie Wallace, ...