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Article: Album Review

Mike Wofford / Holly Hofmann Quintet: Turn Signal

Read "Turn Signal" reviewed by Larry Taylor


Holly Hofmann is an energetic, swinging, straight-ahead jazz flautist who has been performing for over 30 years. Mike Wofford, her husband, a recognized piano master, co-leads on Turn Signal, playing with an understated, intuitively rhythmic style. The two now live in San Diego, California, but travel extensively for performances. Recording her first disc ...

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Mike Wofford / Holly Hofmann Quintet: Turn Signal

Read "Turn Signal" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Down in out-of-the-way San Diego, California (that's out-of-the-way in a New York-centric jazz world), flautist Holly Hofmann and pianist Mike Wofford have been steadily making world-class jazz for a couple of decades. Wofford--who has spent much of his career in supporting roles, backing vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, saxophonists Zoot Sims and Benny Carter, and ...

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Body and Soul

Featuring the music of Jimmy Forrest
Duration: 5:31

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest is the featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra in this performance of the classic ballad, "Body and Soul." Prague Jazz Festival, 1974.
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Night Train

Featuring the music of Jimmy Forrest
Duration: 3:49

The hit by the ex-Ellington tenor saxist who sounded a bit like Johnny Hodges
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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mike Wolk

Read "Take Five With Mike Wolk" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Mike Wolk:Performing music that swings, sounds cool, with great harmony and melody is my life's work. I prefer the structure of straight-ahead jazz as it gives me a chance to play the lines, phrases and licks that create an emotional response from my bandmembers and the audience.I live in Charleston, South ...

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Forrest: Black Forrest

Read "Black Forrest" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest, best known and perhaps best remembered as composer of the huge R&B smash, “Night Train,” was also an underrated swing–based player out of the Gene Ammons/Lockjaw Davis/Sonny Stitt school whose ample talents are showcased on the quintet date Black Forrest, recorded in 1959 with the same cast (and a couple of the ...

Album

Soul Battle

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1992
Track listing: Blues at the Five Spot; Blues for M.F.; Anacruses; Perdido; In Passing; Soul Street.

Album

Live At The Barrel - Volume One

Label: HighNote
Released: 1984

Album

Live At The Barrel Volume Two

Label: HighNote
Released: 1984

Album

Heart Of The Forrest

Label: HighNote
Released: 1982


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