Jazz Articles about Sedric Choukroun

Sedric Choukroun: In the Parlor

by Tom Greenland
December 12, 2005

Sedric Choukroun is one of New York's hidden treasures, a soulful man who speaks through his horn with gentle authority. An immigrant of French-Algerian heritage, Choukroun has been a central figure at Marjorie Eliot's intimate Parlor Entertainment, where an extended “family" gathers in her Harlem apartment every Sunday to enjoy a uniquely hospitable concert environment. In the Parlor is the tenor saxophonist's self-produced maiden voyage, a fine, multifaceted offering showing the breadth of his vision, with tunes ...