Jazz Articles about Manny Echzabal

Manny Echzabal: Short Notice

by Mike Jurkovic
September 30, 2017

From its melodic, passionate opener “Time Out" through the moody, inward looking “Unknown Identity," young Miami saxophonist/composer Manny Echzabal exhibits huge promise on this rolling, thrill seeking debut. In-between those reflective bookends, Echzabal and his equally young, emphatic bandmates, rising Australian pianist Tal Cohen, nimble bassist Dion Kerr, and responsive, groove setting drummer David Chiverton cut loose at every turn, making the muscular music on Short Notice at once familiar (think the winding adventures of Herbie Hancock the ...