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Richard Oppenheim

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Richard Oppenheim has logged road time with the bands of Illinois Jacquet and Buddy Rich, and headed up the sax section in Marvin Gaye’s large touring unit. After putting in a year and a half with the Paul Jeffrey Octet, he segued into the octet of valve trombonist Marshall Brown, and played baritone sax with Jaki Byard and the Apollo Stompers. Two smaller ensembles, Fat Doggie and Zambomba, led respectively by Gregory Alper and Mark Holen, allowed him to stretch in the intrepid company of Bern Nix, Shelley Hirsch, Ray Anderson, and Chuck Loeb, among others. Oppenheim also fronted bebop trios featuring Cameron Brown, Eliot Zigmund, and Bill Goodwin, and shared the bandstand with Charles Mingus, Clifford Jordan, Lionel Hampton, Dave Liebman, and Dennis Charles.

Album

Greenhorn in a Red State

Label: Harriton Carved Wax
Released: 2014
Track listing: Where Is Baseball?; Texas Three-Lane Sideslip ; The (Intermittent) Sidewalks of San Antone; Sunken Kitchens of Terrell Hills; Debutante At the Coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo; Mean Old Bastrop; Boog Powell's Greasy Barbecue Pit (Is Not in San Antonio).

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Article: Album Review

Richard Oppenheim: Greenhorn in a Red State

Read "Greenhorn in a Red State" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Saxophonist Richard Oppenheim's Greenhorn in a Red State is a delightful album with a tight, simmering groove and filled with musically unique twist and turns. Inspired by his relocation to San Antonio from New York and the relative culture shock this entailed the seven originals are witty, nostalgic and restless. The front line of ...

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Katchie & Le Monde Cache: Tales & Tongues

Read "Tales & Tongues" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Vocalist Katharine “Katchie" Cartwright is certainly one extremely talented individual. A Ph. D. in ethnomusicology provides a clue of her caliber on Tales & Tongues. An educator, professional singer and musician, her experience with workshops throughout Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Asia and West Africa, has prepared her well for this particular project, where Cartwright--along with ...


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