Jazz Articles about Jack Wright / Ben Wright

Jack Wright / Ben Wright: as if anything could be the same

by Dave Wayne
June 24, 2015

It's only apropos that I am writing this review on Father's Day. As if anything could be the same is a duet album by the father and son team of saxophonist Jack Wright and contrabassist Ben Wright. In the world of improvised music, or non-idiomatic improvised music if one must, Jack Wright is a seminal figure. A self-taught bluegrass and folk musician as a youth, and later a history professor at Temple University, Wright's trajectory out of “normal" life coincided ...