Jazz Articles about Greg Abate

Greg Abate Quartet at The Puffin Cultural Forum

by David A. Orthmann
February 22, 2007

Greg Abate Quartet The Puffin Cultural Forum Teaneck, NJ January 27, 2007

“Bird never played one note of bullshit, Barry Harris once said about Charlie Parker. Harris' salty aphorism came to mind at the conclusion of Greg Abate's incendiary performance at the Puffin Cultural Forum. Although he's a stylistic descendent of Parker, by way of Sonny Stitt, Phil Woods, and Cannonball Adderley, during a five-song set the alto saxophonist rose above the influences and ...

Greg Abate Quintet: Monsters in the Night

by Jack Bowers
August 31, 2006

Saxophonist Greg Abate is one of a host of talented players who are largely overlooked by the jazz media and thus remain unknown to many fans of the music because they have chosen to stay close to home rather than move to Chicago, Los Angeles or the Big Apple to enhance their stature. Abate, a professional for more than thirty years, was born in Massachusetts, lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and performs mainly in the New England area with an ...

Greg Abate Quintet: Monsters In The Night

by Edward Blanco
April 30, 2006

Jazz master and multi-saxophonist Greg Abate, long known as the “prince of bebop," has thirteen previous recordings as a leader to his credit. Harnessing his physical style of play and combining it with his versatility on the saxophones and flute, he has made one hair-raising and jaw-dropping album with Monsters In The Night, whose nine tracks are dedicated to the monsters we've all come to love and fear.

Given this collection of original compositions with titles like “Dracula" and “Frankenstein," ...

Greg Abate Quintet: Horace is Here

by Dan McClenaghan
May 3, 2005

If a new jazz listener asked me about hard bop sounds, I'd probably have to send them off to listen to recordings by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers--and pianist Horace Silver, too, on his brief collaboration with Blakey's unit, as well as their separate subsequent careers apart. These two musicians, along with drummer Max Roach and trumpeter Clifford Brown, practically invented the hard bop genre.Or I could steer the inquisitive listener to saxophonist Greg Abate's Horace ...

Greg Abate: Bop Lives

by Arthur C. Bourassa
March 1, 1998

This CD is proof that BOP is alive and well and living in the hearts of jazz enthusiasts the world over. The torch has passed from the Spirit of Bird and Dizzy to a new breed of musician. Abate is more than capable of handling the legacy. You no longer have to settle for reissues of recordings by the legends. You can hear live, spontaneous music as evidenced by this album. Love's No Secret, which is based on chord changes ...