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Virginia Mayhew: Sandan Shuffle
by Dan McClenaghan
Who's this Virginia Mayhew woman anyway, Dexter Gordon's daughter? Sonny Rollins' niece? She plays the saxophone like a blood relative of those two giants on Sandan Shuffle. Actually, we know the reedist well from her standout 2003 effort, Phantoms, as an artist who has embraced the mainstream mode and ridden it with vigor and supreme assurance ...
Virginia Mayhew: Sandan Shuffle
by Jerry D'Souza
Virginia Mayhew has a third degree black belt in karate, a level known as sandan. Thus the title of her newest release. The exciting music on Sandan Shuffle is turned around and played with a loquacious spirit, swinging with a delightful sensibility and even shuffling. Mayhew's tone is deep, dark and flinty. Even as she carves ...
Virginia Mayhew: Sandan Shuffle
by Jim Santella
Karate requires discipline and hard work. So does effective musicianship. Most of the martial arts require fast, aggressive motions that are accompanied by slower, more controlled moves. Sometimes, the hand must stop at precisely the right place or someone will get hurt. This requires constant practice. So does playing the saxophone. And ...
Virginia Mayhew: Phantoms
by C. Michael Bailey
Virginia Mayhew's previous recording, No Walls (Foxhaven, 2000) , introduced the saxophonist in a big way to the jazz public. It was her third recording overall, being preceded by Nina Green (Chiaroscuro, 1997) and It's Time for Virginia Mayhew (Philology, 1996). Ms. Mayhew has established herself at the forefront of tenor/soprano saxophonists and composers and rests ...
Virginia Mayhew: Phantoms
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew goes with the pianoless quartet on Phantoms, her third CD as a leader--a format that allows the space and freedom for the band to stretch out. They make the most of the opportunity. Without the comping and chording of the piano, each of the four instrumentalists has to contribute to keeping ...
No Walls
Label: Foxhaven Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Hi-Ya, Mama; Apple Flambe; The Visit We Missed; Never Enough; The Oracle; Grand Central; No Walls; Don't You Know I Care; Mythology. (Total Time: 52:42) .
Virginia Mayhew: No Walls
by C. Michael Bailey
Lee Morgan blowing out of the bell of a Tenor saxophone. this disc is what you would think Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers would sound like had that great musician not passed on. This is a progressive Hard Bop delight from Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew on her follow-up to Nini Green. The set opens with a jaunty original ...
No Walls
Label: Foxhaven Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Hi-ya Mama, Apple Flambe, The Visit We Missed, Never Enough, The Oracle, Grand Central, No Walls, Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know?, Mythology.
Virginia Mayhew: No Walls
by Joel Roberts
Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew's first recording as a leader, 1998's Nini Green, was one of the best-reviewed debuts of that year. Her follow-up, No Walls , is another winner, a set of top-flight modern jazz combining challenging compositions and exciting improvisations from a stellar cast of musicians. Mayhew, a veteran of a dozen years on the New ...
