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Warm It Up Warmdaddy!

Label: Nu Jazz Entertainment
Released: 2009
Track listing: What is dat Thang?; I'll Forget May; Warm it up, Warmdaddy!; Balto, Will You Please Come Home; Monk by Starlight; Warmfreeze; Fore; All the Thangs You Ain't; Space "Nakamura San"; [Balto, Will You Please Come Home (alternate take); Strickly Platonic; I'll Forget May (alternate take); Bluesette.

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Warm It Up, Warmdaddy!

By Wessell Anderson

Label: Nu Jazz Entertainment
Released: 2009
Track listing: What Is Dat Thang?; I'll Forget May; Warm It Up, Warmdaddy!; Balto, Will You Please Come Home?; Monk By Starlight; Warmfreeze; Fore; All the Thangs You Ain't; Space "Nakamura San"; Balto, Will You Please Come Home? (Alt. Take--Fast); Strickly Platonic; I'll Forget May (Alt. Take--Fast); Bluesette.

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Wessell Anderson: Warm It Up, Warmdaddy!

Read "Warm It Up, Warmdaddy!" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 14, 2009

Alto saxophonist Wessell Anderson is a traditionalist who clearly enjoys upending tradition. On Warm It Up, Warmdaddy! several of the songs rework the harmonic structures of some cherished standards and their titles are the work of someone who embraces the classics without taking them too seriously. The mischief begins with “What Is Dat ...

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Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson: Warm It Up Warmdaddy!

Read "Warm It Up Warmdaddy!" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 25, 2009

Wessell “Warmdaddy" Anderson has been playing alto saxophone professionally for over 20 years, much of the time with the Wynton Marsalis Sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, but has only four albums to his name as a leader. Warm It Up Warmdaddy! is a re-packaging, by Nu Jazz Records, of his self-released 2006 CD, ...

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Jimmy Greene: The Overcomer's Suite

Read "The Overcomer's Suite" reviewed by John Barron

by John Barron
February 2, 2009

Since turning heads at the 1996 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition, saxophonist/composer Jimmy Greene has been making a name for himself as a prominent voice in the jazz world. Recorded live at the Firehouse 12, in Greene's hometown of Hartford, Connecticut, the music consists of the four-part title track ("Nelba's Victory," “Song for Isaiah," “Gethsemane" and “David ...

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Jimmy Greene: The Overcomer's Suite

Read "The Overcomer's Suite" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
January 25, 2009

If you compose a suite kindled by a big idea, it's best to front a band with a big sound. That's what tenor/soprano saxophonist Jimmy Greene does on The Overcomer's Suite, his sixth title as a leader and his first for the digital-only Nu Jazz label. Recorded live at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, the session ...