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Afternoon In Paris
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ask Me Now; Jupiter; Blue Monk; I'll Remember April; Now's The Time; Afternoon in Paris; One; Open Spaces;
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Anthony Ortega: Afternoon In Paris
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The quixotic enthusiasm of Hatology Records' chief Werner X. Uehlinger for the idiosyncratic music of one- time Lionel Hampton sideman Anthony Ortega continues with this release of a series of solo performances and saxophone-bass duets recorded in 2002 and 2005. The link to Ortega's quiet classic in the sax-bass vein, New Dance (Hatology, 1966), is made ...
Scattered Clouds
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Alone Together / Body and Soul / Scattered Clouds / What's New (Take 1) / Night and Day / Island of Trolls / All or Nothing at All / What's New (Take 2) / Hot House
Anthony Ortega
by Robert Spencer
Here is a man who has played with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Bley, Quincy Jones, Don Ellis, Dinah Washington, and {{Ella Fitzgerald. Here is a man whose alto saxophone playing has been compared to Charlie Parker's and Ornette Coleman's--both with just cause. Here is a man whose Sixties sessions, long out of print ...
Anthony Ortega Trio: Scattered Clouds
by Robert Spencer
Here is unsung reedman Anthony Ortega in the most stripped-down of contexts: in contrast to the nonet that he recorded with on 1994's Neuf, and even to earlier quartet recordings, here he appears in a bare trio setting. There is a piano and drums but no bassist, and one is not missed: Mike Wofford's piano playing ...
