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Steve Wilkerson & Andrea Baker: Licorice Ice
by Dave Nathan
This is the 6th release from Steve Wilkerson and Andrea Baker for their Dane Records label. This time they work together on a CD that features a formidable of Wilkerson clarinet Earlier albums either had him ignoring the instrument or using it sparingly. But with its renaissance, he adds his name to the those who are reviving the difficult instrument., Wilkerson explores the instrument's romantic possibilities on such tunes as The Shadow of your Smile" and Pennies from Heaven". He ...
read moreSteve Wilkerson and Joey DeFrancesco: It's a Blues Sorta Thing
by Dave Nathan
P> It's a Blues Sorta Thing is in the tradition of saxophone/organ combination whose practitioners have included the likes of Wild Bill Davis and Johnny Hodges, Gene Ammons and Brother Jack McDuff, Ben Webster and Groove Holmes. The adventurous, imaginative players on this album take the basic 12 bar blues and extend, expand, twist and put it through a wringer providing more than an hour of funky, swinging and sometimes sweet sounding music. Over dubbing of the sax parts andtheir ...
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