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Cory Weeds: Everything's Coming Up Weeds
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Everything's Coming Up Weeds, the 50th release from the Cellar Live stable, is a stellar recording featuring an extraordinary quintet. At first blush, it recalls the energy and fervor of wonderful Benny Golson bands and, if the memory can be stretched a wee bit further, also some memorable sessions of The Jazztet--or even a Jazz Messengers middle passage. The date is led by the big tenor sound of Cory Weeds--saxophonist, broadcaster, jazz impresario extraordinaire and owner of Canada's leading West ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
Big Weeds could well herald the return of the big, bad saxophone. Its protagonist, Cory Weeds, blazes his masterful way through a monstrous set, alternating on tenor and alto. And in one fell swoop, Weeds joins the ranks of the instrument's great storytellers. On tenor he is as bold and dramatic as Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. On the smaller and more sensuous alto, he is a younger version of (when he is racy) David “Fathead" Newman or, at times, ...
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