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Jerry Weldon: Well-Done!

Read "Well-Done!" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
September 29, 2008

The high-water mark of Well-Done! is Jerry Weldon's rousing, up-tempo cover of “Filthy McNasty." Barking out four bars of Horace Silver's angular, no-nonsense line, Weldon sounds as if he can bulldoze anything that gets in his way. The tenor saxophonist's single-mindedness is exhilarating. Subsequent to the entrance of Hammond B-3 organist Kyle Koehler's pumping bass line ...

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Head to Head

By Jerry Weldon

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 1999
Track listing: Captain Morgan, Sweet and Lovely, Who Can I Turn To, Big 'D', Late Last Summer, All the Way, Ow, Far East, If Ever I Would Leave You, Ko-Ko (66:42)

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Jerry Weldon-Michael Karn Quintet: Head to Head

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 1, 1999

There's something magical about the idea of dueling tenor saxophones that has kept it a popular commodity for many years now. Historically, the first memorable pairing was that of Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. Then, we had Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and let's not forget that incendiary duo of Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis! ...

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