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Houston Person: Social Call

Read "Social Call" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
December 7, 2003

Houston Person is the kind of player who sounds a little bit like a lot of people, but in the end most like himself. His tone can be burly and robust, but warm and romantic above all. His tune selection demonstrates impeccable taste and a commitment to the time before people changed the rules. Social Call ...

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Trust In Me

By Houston Person

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Chocomotive*/ You

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Houston Person: Trust In Me

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 2001

Tough tenors were a staple diet for many jazz listeners in the 1960s. Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Stanley Turrentine, Arnett Cobb and so many others (the list could literally fill a ledger pages long) took ample measures of blues and soul-derived emotion and combined them with a no-nonsense emphasizing the tenor horn’s naturally ...

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Blue Odyssey

By Houston Person

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2000

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In A Sentimental Mood

By Houston Person

Label: HighNote
Released: 2000

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Houston Person: Blue Odyssey

by Derek Taylor
June 1, 2000

Much to the chagrin of many critics the late 1960s was a heyday of sorts for Soul Jazz. The number of cats dipping their paws into the sweet nectar of the style would never again reach such denominations as it did during the close of the decade. Person, a saxophonist with both soulful touch and a ...

Article: Interview

Ron Carter: Brazilian Charm

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 2000

All About Jazz: You have said that Brazilian changes are different from the ways that Americans adapt Brazilian tunes. Do you think you were true to the Brazilian changes in your latest album, Orfeu? Ron Carter: Absolutely. Definitely. AAJ: What's different about Brazilian changes that Americans can't seem to grasp?

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Soft Lights

By Houston Person

Label: HighNote
Released: 1999

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Truth!

By Houston Person

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1999

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Houston Person: Truth!

by Douglas Payne
July 1, 1999

Despite his Gene Ammons influence, tenor sax man Houston Person has long had his own deep and soulfully growling tone on tenor, whether grooving on blues and boogaloos or exploring ballads with expert sensitivity. Lately, he seems to concentrate exclusively - and beautifully - on ballads. But on the two sessions coupled for this, his second ...