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Alex Graham
"Some of the great alto players, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Phil Woods and even a touch of Johnny Hodges can be discerned as he works to extend the parameters of the horn..." - Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
Alto saxophonist Graham has performed with several of today’s top jazz artists including Rodney Whitaker, Jim Rotondi, Sam Yahel, Nnenna Freelon, Louis Smith, Diane Schuur, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, Mark Levine, Peter Bernstein, Steve Davis, Joe Magnarelli, Michael Wilner, Michael Weiss, Carl Allen, David Hazeltine, Aaron Goldberg, Wessell Anderson, and Dena Derose
Tenor Madness
By Ryan Middagh
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Wiley Roots; Waiter, Make Mine Blues; Tenor Madness; Cry Me a River; This Time the Dream’s
on Me; Wired.
Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness
by Jack Bowers
Nashville-based composer, arranger and saxophonist Ryan Middagh salutes apostles of the mid-range wind instrument on Tenor Madness, his second recording as leader of the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra. Even so, there are no tenor solos after the first three of the album's half-dozen numbers, on which tenors Don Aliquo and Jeff Coffin ("Wiley Roots"), Aliquo again ...
20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Matt Jorgensen
by Paul Rauch
The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 1930's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...
Brain Salad: Brain Salad
by Mike Jurkovic
Hell-bent on establishing a jazz fusion group in Nashville, eager to perform not only its smart original music but also the complex works of such high-profile raconteurs as Hiromi, guitarist Mike Stern and Herbie Hancock, Nashville bassist Ben Griego sent the call out through Music City's flourishing jazz underground in the summer of 2018. Brain Salad ...
The Good Life
By Alex Graham
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Push; I Had the Craziest Dream; It
Alex Graham: The Good Life
by Dan McClenaghan
A quick trip to multiple reedman Alex Graham's web site finds his sound compared to Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, and Horace Silver, but a couple of spins of The Good Life tells you that these reactions must be referring to the band's collective sound. Graham plays alto sax, flute, and clarinet--the latter two reeds on the ...
Alex Graham: The Good Life
by Jack Bowers
I can never understand why, on so many albums these days, the leading accompanist--in this case pianist Rick Roe--is pushed so far forward in the mix that one's ears are irresistibly drawn to him rather than to the soloist he is supposedly backing. Roe is an able accompanist; no argument there. But when his every note ...
