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Sonny Fortune: In Pursuit Of Music
by Russ Musto
Sonny Fortune is one of the most exciting saxophonists in jazz today, with a searing sound that is all his own. Fortune served as a sideman with a variety of leaders, including Elvin Jones, Mongo Santamaria, Buddy Rich, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis and Nat Adderley, but it as a leader that he has truly made his ...
Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali: An Evening of Thanksgiving
by Erik R. Quick
Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali An Die Musik Baltimore, MD November 19, 2005 The small sign on the column of the entrance announced the performance of “Sonny Fortune and Rashied Ali; SOLD OUT . Some anxious audience members gathered at the bottom of the old stone stairs to the ...
Continuum
Label: Sound Reason
Released: 2004
Track listing: Trane and Things; Wayne-ish; Delilah; Sound's Silent; A Space in Time; Continuum; Mongo Blue; Five Four Trane; Nature Boy.
Sonny Fortune: Continuum
by Andrey Henkin
For those that only know Sonny Fortune through his work with the Three Altos or his duo with Rashied Ali, his new self-released album Continuum will present a very different musician. The aforementioned groups feature Fortune solely on alto and as a firebreather playing on standards. Not that there is anything wrong with that (a set ...
Sonny Fortune Quartet at Sweet Rhythm
by Chris Thompson
Sonny Fortune Quartet Sweet Rhythm, New York City March 27, 2004 ‘Round about midnight on March 25, 2004, WKCR in New York City, the radio station of Columbia University, concluded a continuous two-week program on John Coltrane. Yes, that’s right -- John Coltrane Radio 24/7 for two weeks straight! “All Coltrane. All ...
Great Friends
Label: Evidence Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Cal Massey 3:52
2. Is It Not True Simply Because You Cannot... 6:48
3. Thoughts 7:11
4. Equipoise 5:11
5. Synapse 10:12
6. East Harlem Nostalgia 8:43
7. Insight 9:53
8. Awakening 10:01
Fortune / Harper / Cowell / Workman / Hart: Great Friends
by Frank Rubolino
Paris in the mid-1980s was the scene for this session of power players, but the music remains as fresh and vital today as it was when drummer Billy Hart formed the band. Almost a decade earlier, the drummer had assembled a star-studded group for Enchance (Horizon, 1977) and a threesome with Walter Bishop, Jr. called The ...
Fortune/Harper/Cowell/Workman/Hart: Great Friends
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Great Friends, originally released in France in 1986, is a reissue of the only studio recording made by a star-studded quintet that performed briefly in the ‘80s: Sonny Fortune (alto sax), Billy Harper (tenor sax), Stanley Cowell (piano), Reggie Workman (bass), and session leader Billy Hart (drums). The album was recorded right after a tour, while ...
