Jazz Articles about Douglas Lawrence

About Douglas Lawrence

Album Review

After decades gigging as a sideman with some of the USA's most renowned big bands, trombonist Isrea Butler has finally recorded his debut album, Congo Lament, inviting tenor saxophonist and celebrated Count Basie Orchestra soloist Doug Lawrence to share the front line in his quintet. All but one of the album's seven numbers was introduced on tenor 0Ike Quebec's album Easy Living, recorded in 1962, which featured one of Florida-born Butler's musical exemplars, trombonist Bennie Green. The ...

Album Review

Isrea Butler: Congo Lament

Read "Congo Lament" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
September 22, 2024

Well, this is the kind of recording that will start a war over who hears whom and what, all that jazz police kind of thing. Worry not. Whether you think this is a bop recording, rooted in swing, with more than a little of Al Grey's plunger mute on the trombone, or something entirely different, the progeny of Ike Quebec, it really does not matter. Anyone who, say, puts him or herself to rest with the music from Robert Altman's ...