Jazz Articles about Michael Jefry Stevens

Michael Jefry Stevens & Mark Whitecage: Short Stories

by Robert Spencer
September 1, 1998

Many of the tracks on Short Stories start in a tone of regretful tenderness befitting the title of the first track, “Bittersweet." But there is a piquancy to the playing of both members of this duo, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens and multi-talented reedman (alto & soprano sax, plus alto clarinet) Mark Whitecage, that makes this more than your average jazz ballad. Stevens' playing is invested with the harmonic richness of classical music, combined with the inexorable forward motion of jazz ...