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Ted Brown and Joel Press Live (June 30, 2010)
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
The great encounters between jazz musicians playing the same instrument are rarely “cutting contests" as seen in the movies. More often, they are thoughtful, musing conversations. The dialogues that took place between tenor saxophonists Ted Brown and Joel Press in an informal session at Sofia's in New York City on June 30, 2010, resonate. It didn't hurt the collective expression that Joel and Ted were joined by the very expert and empathic Michael Kanan, piano; Neal Miner, bass; Joe Hunt, ...
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Joel Press and Michael Kanan (June 29, 2010)
Source:
Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
I had first heard the saxophonist Joel Press on a CD called HOW'S THE HORN TREATING YOU? some years ago. I was delighted by his imagination, his ease, his sense of self--he knows and has lived through an entire jazz tradition from Lester and Hawkins to free jazz and beyond, but he sounds utterly like himself.
Then, more recently, I had the good fortune to hear his duet sessions with pianist Kyle Aho, UNTYING THE STANDARD, which impressed me greatly. ...
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