Results for "Avram Fefer and Bobby Few"

Avram Fefer and Bobby Few

Heavenly Places

By Avram Fefer and Bobby Few

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Happy Hour, Heavenly Places, Improv/Kingdom Come

Kindred Spirits

By Avram Fefer and Bobby Few

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ask Me Now; Light Blue; Reincarnation of a Lovebird; Come Sunday; Pannonica; Friday the 13th; Orange Was the Color of Hew Dress Then Blue Silk; Heavenly Places; Kingdom Come; Kingdom Come.

Avram Fefer and Bobby Few: Kindred Spirits

by Dan McClenaghan
June 11, 2005

Multiple reedist Avram Fefer and pianist Bobby Few team up here to play some jazz standards by Monk, Ellington, and Mingus--not what you'd expect from a pair of artists better known for their free jazz credentials. Few played for ten years with Steve Lacy, and Fefer put out several fine sets on the CIMP label; they ...

Avram Fefer and Bobby Few: Kindred Spirits

by Chad Kushins
June 9, 2005

Sometimes lightning strikes twice. As proof, legendary expatriate Bobby Few has teamed with fellow sound explorer Avram Fefer for two fresh releases of very different character, and with near-perfect results. On the aptly-titled Kindred Spirits, Few and Fefer offer a slower, more blues-laden repertoire than the more free jazz-oriented Heavenly Places. But don't let this accessibility ...

Avram Fefer and Bobby Few: Heavenly Places

by Dan McClenaghan
June 1, 2005

Saxophonist Avram Fefer and pianist Bobby Few seem something of a sonic odd couple. Few's majestically bluesy, classically-influenced, erudite-yet-free approach is full of flowing beauty, infused with a marrow-deep spirituality. Avram Fefer--especially on tenor--sounds at times like a ragged wound; not a punture or clean slice, but a deep raw scrape producing a big roaring sound ...