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C.I. Williams: When Alto Was King
by Joel Roberts
If you don't know the name C.I. Williams, you're not alone. Although the journeyman alto saxophonist has played in the bands of people like Frank Foster, Clark Terry, and Ruth Brown since the early '50s, he has only a few solo albums to his credit and none in the past twenty-five years. This outstanding new album ...
King/Bluiett Trio: Makin' Whoopee
by Joel Roberts
This thoroughly enjoyable album is a loose, funky tribute to the music of the Nat King Cole Trio by the great baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett. Using the same spare backing of just guitar and bass as the King Cole Trio, Bluiett covers familiar material from the Cole repertoire like “Sweet Lorraine," “Paper Moon," “Straighten Up and ...
Clifford Jordan: The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan
by Joel Roberts
The jazz world lost one of its great personalities when Clifford Jordan died in 1993. These informal, exceptionally intimate sessions, recorded at Mapleshade's Maryland studio between 1987 and 1991, capture Jordan's big, warm-toned tenor sax in a variety of settings ranging from sax / piano and sax / guitar duos to organ trios and four-horn jams. ...
