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Road to Forever
By Greg Abate
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2017
Track listing: Road to Forever; City of 2-5s; The Dancing Panda; Take the Crowell Train; Farewell Phil Woods; Whaling City Sound; Red Fish Boulevard; Seasons; Buzzardology; Mr. Parker.
A bebopper through and through
Greg Abate got hooked on the 1950s hard-bop style that evolved from bebop, and he has made himself a career of bringing that intense sound to audiences across the U.S. and around the globe. Much like two other alto sax players with whom he has recorded, Richie Cole and the late Phil Woods, Abate developed into ...
Greg Abate with the Tim Ray Trio: Road to Forever
by Jack Bowers
Greg Abate's name isn't often broached when debating the merits of contemporary jazz saxophonists. It should be. While perhaps best known for his work on alto, the Rhode Island-based swinger proves on Road to Forever, recorded with his regular working trio, not only that his talents on soprano, tenor sax and flute are exemplary, but that ...
Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's
By Greg Abate
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD 1: Steeplechase (Thriving on a Riff); A Sleepin' Bee, The End of a Love Affair;
Angel Eyes; Cedar's Blues; Willow Weep For Me; Steeplechase (short version);
Fried Clams With Bellies (spoken); Phil and Sequel (spoken); Emotionally
Involved (spoken); Different Keys (spoken). CD 2: I'll remember April: Moonlight
in Vermont; Speak Low; Strollin' Yardbird Suite; Moonlight in Vermont (short
version); The First One's Free (spoken)
Tim Ray Trio: Windows
by Dan McClenaghan
The Tim Ray Trio supplied the spirited accompaniment on Kindred Spirits (Whaling City Sound, 2016), behind saxophonists Greg Abate and the legendary Phil Woods. But they got the chance to step out--sax men taking a break--with a peppery take on Kurt Weill's classic “Speak Low," which serves as a preview of sorts for the Tim Ray ...
Dan Moretti & Brazilia Featuring Greg Abate And Oscar Stagnaro Live At Chan's on April 9th
Rhode Island Jazz saxophone greats Dan Moretti and Greg Abate (RI Hall of Fame 2016) will hit Chan’s in Woonsocket for a 20 year reunion celebrating the Latin-Jazz recording Dan Moretti & Brazilia Live at Chans on Saturday April 9th, 2016 at 8 pm. Call 401-765-1900 or visit chanseggrollsandjazz.com for tickets. The original Brazilia CD was ...
Greg Abate & Phil Woods: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's
by Edward Blanco
Alto saxophonist Greg Abate is a man who has built a career as a powerhouse reed man and a proponent of the mainstream bebop style, earning the nickname “the prince of bebop." One of the kings of the genre, is unquestionably the legendary Phil Woods who blazed that trail before Abate and others followed. Captured live ...
Greg Abate & Phil Woods: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's
by Dan McClenaghan
The legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods' (1931-2015) health was failing at the time Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's was recorded, but you never know it by listening to the crisp delivery, the vitality of a hot bebop band playing in the mode of the iconic altoist Charlie Parker. Saxophonist Greg Abate joins Woods in the front ...
Motif
By Greg Abate
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2014
Track listing: Motif; Buddy's Rendezvous; Snowfall; Mrs.T; Bittersweet; Flashback; Steppin' Out; Morning of the Leaves; Conflict; Swingin' at the Cookie; Bop'n Bob Don't Stop
Hard Bopper Greg Abate and His High-Energy Jazz
High-energy jazz doesn't describe the full feeling of listening to hard bop saxophonist Greg Abate in live performance because so much intensity and idea-making fuels his music. But it comes close. Even his approach to ballads and sambas have that lilt. They start out breezy or laid-back, but they are certain to have their burning moments.Count ...
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