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Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music

Read "Saxophone Quartet Music" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
August 25, 2024

A listener who remembers when saxophone quartets were a novelty--and a controversial one at that--is probably wondering how much the Cost-of-Living Adjustment will be for Social Security in 2025. Yes, the esteemed World Saxophone Quartet kicked up as much a critical fuss in the late 1970s as Ornette Coleman did in the 1950s. Not as “In this jazz?" but as in “Is this music." It is a measure of progress, one suspects, that those battles of ...

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Allan Harris: Live At The Blue LLama

Read "Live At The Blue LLama" reviewed by Dave Linn

by Dave Linn
July 22, 2023

Allan Harris has had a varied musical journey. Brooklyn-born, he grew up surrounded by the sounds of jazz, blues, and R&B. His mother often played records by artists like Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. These influences shaped his musical sensibilities and inspired him to pursue a music career. He recorded his debut album, Setting The Standard (Love Records) in 1994 at the age of 38. Over the next 27 years, he released 12 more records ...

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Charnett Moffett: New Love

Read "New Love" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
September 2, 2021

If one thing is obvious from this CD, it is that electric bassist Charnett Moffett is a happy man these days. His playing leaps out of the speakers on these tracks with joy and high spirits. That may be because he works here in the company of his “new love," his wife, guitarist Jana Herzen. The two of them bounce, dance and wiggle their instruments together on twelve wide-ranging tracks which take in funk, reggae, folk, and psychedelia, always exuding ...