Jazz Articles about Marchel Ivery

About Marchel Ivery

Album Review

Marchel Ivery: Marchel Ivery 3

by C. Michael Bailey
April 1, 2000

Trio con carne. This eight song disc is divided in half, each half illustrating a different piece of Tenor Sax history. The first four pieces are performed by a standard organ-tenor trio with the irrepressible Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond B3. The second half is the standard tenor trio as pioneered by Sonny Rollins on such recordings as Way Out West and Live At The Village Vanguard. Marchel Ivery has a tone more narrow and drier than that of Rollins, ...

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Album Review

Marchel Ivery: 3

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2000

Tenor saxophonist Marchel Ivery is a walking monument to the Texas tenor sound. Born in 1938, and until of late, not heard much outside the Longhorn State. Ivery has a large sound. Big, like Sonny Rollins, Clifford Jordan, Joe Henderson, or fellow Texan James Clay. His music is a timeless jazz born in the bebop era and built on a blues inflection. No gimmicks, guffaws, or light shows. Marchel Ivery is old school. This, his third release for Leaning House, ...