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Reeds and Keys

Label: Jazz Friends Productions
Released: 2003

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[Balaena]

Label: Jazz Friends Productions
Released: 2000
Track listing: Pie Crust; Cable Waltz; Blues Work; Song For Pres; Blues In Fourths; Balaena; Blues A Hoy; In Walked Bish. (Total Time: 74:31)

Album

Balaena

Label: Jazz Friends Productions
Released: 2000
Track listing: Pie Crust; Cable Waltz; Blues Work; Song For Pres; Blues in Fourths; Balaena; Blues a Hoy; In Walked Bish

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Ricky Ford: [Balaena]

Read "[Balaena]" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Heldentenor Veteran Tenorist Rick Ford debuts of Jazz Friends with a solid live set supported by a truly all-star rhythm section of George Cables; Cecil McBee, and Ed Thigpen. This release is made up of mostly extended pieces where Ford shows his depth and breadth form Dexter Gordon passing through Sonny Rollins on his way to ...

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Ricky Ford Quartet: Balaena

Read "Balaena" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Ricky Ford is a gifted, if underrated veteran tenor saxophonist who has been making records for some twenty-five years now. He carries forth the tenor tradition with a big sound reminiscent of Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins, but with a style that employs harmony and meter in such a way that distinguishes him from his predecessors. ...

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Loxodonta Africana

Label: Muse Records
Released: 1997

Album

American-African Blues

Label: Muse Records
Released: 1993

Album

Tenor Madness Too!

Label: Muse Records
Released: 1992

Album

Ebony Rhapsody

Label: Muse Records
Released: 1990

Album

Hard Groovin'

Label: Muse Records
Released: 1989


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