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The Dan St. Marseille Quartet: Swinging With The Saint

Read "Swinging With The Saint" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 20, 2007

With several previous recordings as a leader in addition to his many appearances as a sideman on other albums, Dan St. Marseille is known exclusively as a tenor saxophonist who now, with this release, joins a select group of musicians recording a straight-ahead jazz album with clarinet as the lead instrument. Though he began playing music with the clarinet at the age of nine, Swinging With The Saint is St. Marseille's professional debut on this instrument in one of those ...

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Dan St. Marseille: Departure

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 1999

If it’s true, as many say, that Jazz improvisation is actually story–telling by another name, tenor saxophonist Dan St. Marseille is an accomplished narrator who recounts a number of fascinating stories on Departure. None of them, it should be pointed out, is entirely unfamiliar, as comparable versions have been inscribed for a number of years by saxophonists from Stan Getz through Michael Brecker to Joe Lovano. On the other hand, in Jazz, as with snowflakes, no two patterns are ever ...