Jazz Articles about D.B. Shrier

D.B. Shrier: D. B. Shrier emerges

by Mike Jurkovic
March 23, 2023

The provenance behind this full-bore blow out recorded in 1967 by Philadelphia tenor sax legend D.B.Shrier differs from most myths in the fact that we now have pure, full-blown proof of what a night in his company sounded like: A scorching combustion of energy, virtuosity and audience adulation. Originally released by Alfa Records in 1967, the first five tracks of D.B. Shrier emerges may sound a primitive as hell having been recorded at a community college, but it ...