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Born To Be Blue

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Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 4:38

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Born to be Blue

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2013
Track listing: Alone Together; Moon and Sand; Andrew's Pate; Born To Be Blue; How Deep Is The Ocean; I Thought About You; We Will Meet Again; The Things We Did Last Summer; I Remember Zoot; Lazy Afternoon; Without A Song.

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Steve Heckman: Born to be Blue

Read "Born to be Blue" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


The Great American Standard is a nourishing Mother. No matter how far away one might stray, or who has mined there before, the Canon always welcomes further improvisatory exploration. The challenge, of course, is for the artist to honor the source appropriately.With Born to Be BlueBay Area saxophonist, Steve Heckman takes us on yet ...

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Steve Heckman Quartet / Quintet: Born To Be Blue

Read "Born To Be Blue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Saxophonist Steve Heckman often intentionally stands in the shadow of John Coltrane, as demonstrated on With John In Mind {World City Music, 2003) and Live At Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005), but he's no Coltrane clone. Heckman has absorbed bits and pieces of many masters, so a less exuberant, matte finished take on Sonny Rollins, a ...

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Steve Heckman: Born to be Blue

Read "Born to be Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Much is made of the influence of John Coltrane on multi-reedist Steve Heckman. His third recording, Born to be Blue finds Heckman delving deeper into the standards territory, Coltrane's residual influence showing up in Heckman's slightly raspy, dry tone, but not anything as caustic as Coltrane's take-no-prisoner timbre. This is not Heckman's pass at Ballads (Impulse!, ...

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Born To Be Blue

Label: Jazz from Rant
Released: 2011

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Born to Be Blue

Label: Blue Shorts Records
Released: 2011

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Ed Reed: Born to Be Blue

Read "Born to Be Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Ed Reed joins fellow West Coasters Art Pepper and Frank Morgan in returning to a critically acclaimed career previously derailed by substance abuse. After 40 years of scuffling, Reed cleaned up, became a chemical dependency treatment professional and began recording in earnest. Reed has released two recordings, Love Stories (Self Produced, 2007) and The Song is ...

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Born to Be Blue

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010

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Baltimore Oriole

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Duration: 4:05


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