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Multiple Reviews

Hayes Greenfield: Because of You! & Duo + One

Read "Hayes Greenfield: Because of You! & Duo + One" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Hayes Greenfield Because of You! Dots and Lines 2007 Rashied Ali/Hayes Greenfield Duo + One Dots and Lines 2007

It's clear that, whether he's interpreting his own tunes or someone else's, Hayes Greenfield deeply respects the classics. This pair of recent releases shows his proficiency as a composer and saxophonist and ...

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Album Review

Hayes Greenfield: Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz

Read "Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz" reviewed by Jim Santella


Hayes Greenfield's jazz CD for kids isn't just for the children. Under his leadership, the session swings hard and reveals plenty of hot soloing. The music flows with a mainstream quality, serving to introduce pure jazz to a youthful audience, as well as reminding adults that this language is indeed universal.

Greenfield founded Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz in 1997 as a live, interactive show for young people. Through this New York program, he introduces jazz to children while letting them participate ...

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Album Review

Hayes Greenfield: Peace of Mind

Read "Peace of Mind" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan


Saxophonist Hayes Greenfield's album Peace of Mind is a thoroughly enjoyable and palatable listen, a sonic equivalent of a painting with a wide array of colors all complementing each other. So it's a surprise that the music is mostly made by only a quartet.Part of that lasting effect is due to the joyous second track, “The Pied Piper. It begins with Greenfield delivering a tuneful major-key vocal chant, with other vocalists chirping about. Greenfield takes the theme and ...

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Album Review

Hayes Greenfield: Peace of Mind

Read "Peace of Mind" reviewed by Jim Santella


With a charged-up quartet interpreting originals that honor the careers of heroes such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Hayes Greenfield explores the wide-ranging fields that encompass modern jazz. His alto saxophone sounds off with breathtaking tirades that thrill.

Greenfield's last album, Jazz-Ma-Tazz, was for children. This one goes much further, bringing together generations of jazz lovers in an affair that includes exotic impressions from all around the globe.

“Tea for Three" is a soprano saxophone ...


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