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Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live At Smoke

Read "Veneration: Live At Smoke" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman

In jazz, the mainstream is defined by what the music is not, or lacks. It is jazz as a style, rather than an aesthetic, and is not a “modern" concept. Many musicians of the Swing era, when confronted with the avant-garde named bebop, chose, for many reasons, to keep playing what they knew, rather than join ...

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Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke

Read "Veneration: Live at Smoke" reviewed by Christopher Shoe

by Christopher Shoe

Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery's music is influenced by a long line of musicians, and on Veneration: Live at Smoke he takes a moment to pay homage to some of them. However, this live album, recorded at the New York club Smoke, is much more than a dedication to great musicians of the past. The disc showcases some ...

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Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Legacy Band: Maximum Firepower

Read "Maximum Firepower" reviewed by Gaylord Smith

by Gaylord Smith

A group setting itself up as a legacy band runs the risk of unfair comparison with the original, particularly when the bulk of the material happens to be widely known music from the justly famed Cannonball Adderley combo. Although drummer/leader Louis Hayes worked for the alto saxophonist for six years and helped create some of the ...

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Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke

Read "Veneration: Live at Smoke" reviewed by Edward Zucker

by Edward Zucker

Live at the Village Vanguard: These magical words signified a musician had made it in the world of jazz. For the current generation of musicians, Live at Smoke may now take its place. Tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery clearly has arrived, as evidenced on Veneration: Live at Smoke. Escoffery, who performs regularly with Tom Harrell, the Mingus ...

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Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke

Read "Veneration: Live at Smoke" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has become a hot commodity as of late. Besides his two previous, well-received recordings, Intuition and Times Change, he has also appeared on Wycliffe Gordon and Jay Leonhart's This Rhythm on My Mind and Eric Reed's Happiness, among several other recordings. What emerges on Veneration, Escoffery's new live disc recorded at the New ...

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Papa John DeFrancesco: Desert Heat

Read "Desert Heat" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

From the perspective of family history, there wouldn't have been a Joey DeFrancesco, arguably the most famous of the contemporary interpreters of the Hammond B-3 organ, without the style that he learned from his father. John DeFrancesco moved to Philadelphia in 1967 and became part of the jazz scene there when his wife presented the former ...

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Mike LeDonne: On Fire

Read "On Fire" reviewed by CJ Shearn

by CJ Shearn

The organ combo, a time-tested format, can stick to your ribs like a good meal. Organist Mike LeDonne, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Joe Farnsworth together are a tight working band, displaying all the qualities that make this formation classic and still relevant on their second Savant release, On Fire.

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Double Exposure

By Cecil Brooks III

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: On The Trail; Serenade In Blue; Tea For Two; Bird of Beauty; Double Exposure; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; You've Changed; Cute.

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The Outlaw

By Joe Chambers

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Outlaw; Tu-Way-Pock-E-Way; Come Back to Me; I Think It's Time To Say Goodbye; In A Sentimental Mood; Bembe; Escapade; Bahia; Poinciana.

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Tenor of the Times

By Jerry Bergonzi

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Acookarache; You're My Everything; Bob Berg; Cadiz; Stumbelina; Skull Shining; The Tomb.


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