Jazz Articles about Joe Lovano

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Joe Lovano with Family and Friends: Cleveland Heights, December 28, 2010

by Matt Marshall
January 14, 2011

Joe LovanoNighttownCleveland Heights, OhioDecember 28, 2010 Late into the third set of his homecoming gig with family and friends at Nighttown, saxophonist Joe Lovano took to the mike to remind all in attendance that “Cleveland has always had a creative music scene goin' on." It felt part pep talk, part classic eureka moment of the chronically pessimistic Clevelander, sprung this night from the combustive heat of a wonderfully overstuffed room: “Wait, wow, this is our ...

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Paul Motian: Bill Evans

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 29, 2010

Ecco una ristampa da non lasciarsi sfuggire, se non l'avete già oppure se il vostro Lp è troppo consumato. Nel maggio 1990 il trio di Paul Motian con Lovano e Frisell (ampliato per l'occasione al bassista Marc Johnson), dedicò un omaggio a Bill Evans incidendo un album di sue composizioni. Come nel caso dell'omaggio dedicato due anni prima a Monk, Motian realizzò un disco magistrale, tra i più riusciti della sua carriera di leader. Le composizioni di Bill Evans erano ...

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Joe Lovano: Folk Art

by Jeff Stockton
September 2, 2009

Some jazz artists enter a period in their careers where they've said all they have to say yet carry on, eking out a living, resting on laurels and simply playing out the string. Not saxophonist Joe Lovano. Folk Art is his 22nd recording for Blue Note alone, a run that has been marked by artistic consistency and tasteful excellence. This collection, however, is arguably the freshest and richest inside/out session he's delivered in his admirable career, certainly since Trio Fascination ...

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Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane

by John Kelman
June 30, 2009

Although he's spent most of his career focusing on interpreting the music of others, pianist Steve Kuhn's albums for the ECM label have largely been about his small but significant repertoire of original music. Which makes Mostly Coltrane a real anomaly by comparison to earlier works like those reissued in the three-CD box set Life's Backward Glances -Solo and Quartet (ECM, 2009). Still, Kuhn has a perhaps little-known connection that makes this set of, well, mostly material either composed or ...

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Joe Lovano Us Five: Folk Art

by Troy Collins
May 13, 2009

Folk Art is saxophonist Joe Lovano's 22nd album as a leader for the esteemed Blue Note label, and surprisingly, his first of all original compositions. Folk Art is unusual not only in its choice of material, but in personnel as well. Pianist James Weidman is the only veteran, rising bass star Esperanza Spalding and percussionists Otis Brown III and Francisco Mela are new faces on the scene.

Inspired by the vigor of his young line-up, Lovano's open-ended approach ...

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Joe Lovano: Symphonica

by Chris May
August 25, 2008

Sumptuous and cinematic, a retrospective with a spin, Symphonica is the first album saxophonist Joe Lovano has recorded in its entirety with a full symphony orchestra. Playing mainly tenor, he revisits six of his favorite original compositions (and Charles Mingus' “Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love"), written over the last 20 years, with the massed strings, woodwinds and brass of Cologne's WDR Radio Big Band and Orchestra.

By turns caressed and buoyed along by Michael Abene's gorgeous arrangements, Lovano ...

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Saxophone Summit: Seraphic Light

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2008

Cambia l'organico (la dolorosa scomparsa di Michael Becker ha portato all'inserimento del più giovane Ravi Coltrane), ma non la formula del Saxophone Summit, nucleo di strumentisti di eccelsa qualità che propone un post-bop contemporaneo di ottima fattura. Certo, qualche perplessità c'è. Ci si chiede, ad esempio, se sia proprio necessario riunire tre dei maggiori sassofonisti al mondo (non bastava il solo Lovano? O il solo Coltrane? O il solo Liebman?) per suonare in modo piuttosto tradizionale una musica che viene ...