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Daring to Take a Chisel to Two Monuments of Jazz

February 14, 2009

Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Coltrane's Giant Steps may be the most fetishized jazz records in the last 50 years, and this year they both turn exactly 50. The saxophonists, George Garzone, Ted Nash, Sherman Irby and Walter Blanding Jr. Backing them, bassist Ivan Taylor, and the drummers Rodney Green and Jimmy Cobb. A ...

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Black Warrior

By Sherman Irby

Label: Black Warrior
Released: 2001
Track listing: Black Warrior; Yemenja; Ornate; Three Elders; Lost Prophets; Well Water; Blues For Stanley T.; Ruby; Brother.

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Sherman Irby: Black Warrior

by Mark Corroto
July 1, 2001

In today’s jazz scene, playing within the tradition can get you both overlooked and out of a major label contract. Alto saxophonist Sherman Irby is familiar with jazz conventions and is also launching his own label Black Warrior Records. Jazz’s present preoccupation with all things beats-and-groove related has cast away its young lions for jazz/rock fusion ...

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Big Mama's Biscuits

By Sherman Irby

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Conversing with Cannon, 'Bama, Lake Tuscaloosa, Big Mama's Biscuits, Passage of Time, Too High, Aunt Dorothy, Take the "A" Train, Call to Order, Away from Home, We're gonna Be Alright.

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Sherman Irby: Big Mama's Biscuits

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 1999

Redux. AAJ 's John Sharpe opined a brief and sharp-creased assessment of this record in the November issue. I am chiming in to add some observations, not to try and improve on Mr. Sharpe's commentary. The Heart of the Matter. Irby's performances with Ed Cherry on acoustic guitar reminds me of the Frank Morgan Collaboration Listen ...

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Big Mama's Biscuits

By Sherman Irby

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1998

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Sherman Irby: Big Mama's Biscuits

by John Sharpe
November 1, 1998

Irby's second Blue Note release serves up eleven tasty, bluesy biscuits----all flavoured with generous helpings of gospel, R&B and funk. For the most part, Irby is accompanied by bassist Gerald Cannon and drummer Clifford Barbaro and this trio packs one hell of a rhythmic wallop. The CD also features guitarist Ed Cherry on three tracks and ...

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