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Greg Abate and Phil Woods
One of the finest saxophone albums of the year is The Greg Abate Quintet, Featuring Phil Woods (Rhombus). In fact, this high-pressure bop blowing date is one of Phil's best recent outings, and he's put to the test. I love this album because it's smartly paced, rich with daredevil reed playing, and there's loads of artistic ...
Greg Abate Teaneck, NJ December 10, 2011
by David A. Orthmann
Greg AbateTeaneck, NJDecember 10, 2011 “Capitalism Sucks," a mural by Mike Alewitz which graphically depicts the anti- democratic nature of capitalism, hangs on a wall behind the performance space at The Puffin Cultural Forum. An all-powerful puppet master and a host of minions from the clergy, academia and the media, all exploit ...
Greg Abate and Yoko Miwa Performing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Wednesday, June 1
Jazz saxophonist, composer and teacher Greg Abate is performing with pianist Yoko Miwa at Scullers Jazz Club at the Doubletree Guest Suites by Hilton Hotel in Boston on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $22 ($60 for dinner and show) and can be ordered online. Located at 400 Soldiers Field ...
Greg Abate Quartet at The Puffin Cultural Forum
by David A. Orthmann
Greg Abate Quartet The Puffin Cultural Forum Teaneck, NJ January 27, 2007 “Bird never played one note of bullshit, Barry Harris once said about Charlie Parker. Harris' salty aphorism came to mind at the conclusion of Greg Abate's incendiary performance at the Puffin Cultural Forum. Although he's a stylistic descendent ...
Monsters In The Night
By Greg Abate
Label: Koko Jazz Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Dracula; Frankenstein; Monsters In The Night; Dr. Jekyll/Mr, Hyde; Bride of Frankenstein; In The Woods At Night; Transylvania 6-5000; Pentagram, The Wolfman; Igor's Revenge.
Greg Abate Quintet: Monsters in the Night
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Greg Abate is one of a host of talented players who are largely overlooked by the jazz media and thus remain unknown to many fans of the music because they have chosen to stay close to home rather than move to Chicago, Los Angeles or the Big Apple to enhance their stature. Abate, a professional ...
Greg Abate Quintet: Monsters In The Night
by Edward Blanco
Jazz master and multi-saxophonist Greg Abate, long known as the “prince of bebop," has thirteen previous recordings as a leader to his credit. Harnessing his physical style of play and combining it with his versatility on the saxophones and flute, he has made one hair-raising and jaw-dropping album with Monsters In The Night, whose nine tracks ...
Horace is Here
By Greg Abate
Label: Koko Jazz Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Filthy McNasty, Horace is Here, Nica's Dream, Song for My Father, Nutville, Silver's Seranade, On the Road, Peace, May Reh, Quicksilver
Greg Abate Quintet: Horace is Here
by Dan McClenaghan
If a new jazz listener asked me about hard bop sounds, I'd probably have to send them off to listen to recordings by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers--and pianist Horace Silver, too, on his brief collaboration with Blakey's unit, as well as their separate subsequent careers apart. These two musicians, along with drummer Max ...
