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Veneration: Live at Smoke
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Locke's Vibe; I Waited for You; Bee Vamp; Skydive; Tell Me Why; Looking Ahead; Isfahan; Melody for Melonae.
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live At Smoke
by Craig W. Hurst
As the title implies, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery's Veneration is a recording that pays tribute to the art of modern jazz. Recorded live at the Smoke night club in New York City, it perhaps captures the essence of jazz more authentically as a performance art. That is, music created in the moment, freshly honed in the presence ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live At Smoke
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 ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke
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 ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke
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 ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke
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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