Jazz Articles about Houston Person

Houston Person: So Nice

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 4, 2012

È necessario premetterlo ad inizio recensione, per contestualizzare le riflessioni che seguono: So Nice è un ottimo disco. Meglio: a chi scrive è piaciuto. Anzi, a livello puramente emozionale, è piaciuto molto. L'organico è collaudato, la padronanza strumentale e quella della forma sono indubitabili. La scelta dei brani è congeniale al leader. In breve, la musica che si ascolta in So Nice è bella e negarlo sarebbe disonesto. Non di meno, questo disco chiama ad una riflessione sul suo senso ...

Houston Person: So Nice

by Greg Simmons
November 10, 2011

Mom's meatloaf is wonderfully predictable. You always know what you're going to get, and after decades, you've come to rely on it. Why? Because there's something intimately reassuring about knowing that when you go back for more, it's the same as the last time. A recipe change would be simply unthinkable. It's comfort food. Oh, and by the way, it's delicious. Houston Person albums are like mom's meatloaf. There are never any surprises. The name on the cover ...

Houston Person: Moment to Moment

by Greg Simmons
February 2, 2011

Tenor saxophonist Houston Person's Moment to Moment begins with an instant nostalgia trip to the classic Blue Note Sessions of the 1960s. It should not come as any surprise, then, that this album was recorded in the legendary Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, NJ by the man himself, Rudy Van Gelder--rarely a bad thing. The tenor and trumpet front line in the opener, “Bleeker Street," would be at home on an old Donald Byrd or Tina Brooks ...

Houston Person: Mellow

by Andrew Velez
March 5, 2010

Houston Person's Mellow could easily have been called “Up Close and Personal." With dozens and dozens of recordings to his credit, it's just the latest in a long list of exemplary sets that always evidence the warmth of his tone and the directness of his tenor sax phrasing. Also mixed in as well is a funky R&B feeling. That is particularly noticeable on the bouncy “Sunny" that opens the set. Everyone gets into a sweet heat, most notably when James ...

Houston Person: The Wizard of Jazz A Tribute to Harold Arlen, Well,Alright! Nancy Kelly Live, A Song For You

by Andrew Velez
July 4, 2009

Peter Hand Big BandThe Wizard of Jazz: A Tribute to Harold Arlen (feat. Houston Person)Savant2009 Nancy KellyWell, Alright!: Live! with Houston PersonSaying It With Jazz2009 Ernestine AndersonA Song For YouHighNote2008 As he continues on well into his 8th decade as the go-to tenor sax man, the ...

Houston Person: Don't Misunderstand & Thinking of You

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
November 3, 2007

Etta Jones/Houston Person Don't Misunderstand HighNote 2007 Houston Person Thinking of You HighNote 2007

Collaborations are ubiquitous in jazz. Legendary ones are rarer, but still existent. When one of the two talents involved passes away and is survived by the other, many listeners refuse to let go of the memory and ...

Houston Person: Having a Good Time

by Joao Moreira dos Santos
September 7, 2005

We met Houston Person in July at Estoril Jazz, the oldest jazz festival held in Portugal. He was due to play with Joey DeFrancesco but as the Hammond B3 player missed the show he jumped from guest to main attraction. Before the concert we had the chance to interview this much underrated tenor saxophonist and talk about his 40 years of jazz playing and his relationship with audiences all over the world.

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