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Jim Saltzman: Hidden Intentions

Read "Hidden Intentions" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
September 3, 2007

Jim Saltzman is another gifted, pyrotechnical tenor player out of the Coltrane-Brecker school, one who, based on the evidence of this striking debut recording and all-original program, bears close watching. When he backs off on his sound, he displays an appealing, warm middle register, but for the most part the emphasis here is on high-energy, intense playing. Saltzman shows impressive control of harmonics, occasionally employing multiphonics, and his command of the altissimo register would likely give some alto players an ...

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Jim Saltzman: Hidden Intentions

Read "Hidden Intentions" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter
June 23, 2007

An accomplished sideman (Dave Valentin, James Spaulding, Claudio Roditi) and a graduate of William Paterson University's acclaimed jazz studies program, woodwind multi-instrumentalist Jim Saltzman is a mainstay of the New York and Philadelphia jazz scenes. With a resume like his, the fact that Saltzman's playing is as self-assured as any national act is no surprise. The more pleasant surprise is the quality of the originals he brings to Hidden Intentions--all of them delivered by a hard-hitting quartet that thinks and ...