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Von Freeman: The Great Divide
by C. Michael Bailey
It is a little bit crazy to consider octogenarian tenor saxophonist Von Freeman paying tribute to anyone considering that he has outlived the vast majority of his peers. Still, Mr. Freeman chooses to step out and tip his hat to three horns that changed everything - Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker. Freeman reasons that ...
The Improvisor
By Von Freeman
Label: Premonition Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: If I Should Lose You, Ski-wee, What is this thing Called Love?, Darn That Dream, Blue Bossa, Blues for Billie, I Like the Sunrise
Von Freeman: The Improvisor
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Von Freeman wasn't bitten by the wanderlust--a disadvantage in a jazz career. You've got to tour, or at the very least move to New York or Los Angeles. Or so they say. But Freeman stayed in Chicago, and for the better part of the last thirty years has been holding court at The Apartment Lounge, ...
You Talkin' To Me?!
By Von Freeman
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Get Out/ Good Bait/ When I Fall In Love/ You Talkin
Von & Ed
By Von Freeman
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Mr. P.C./ Four/ Loverman/ A Night In Tunisia/ Lover.
Von Freeman & Frank Catalano: You Talkin' To Me?!
by Derek Taylor
Break out the party hats and cut the celebratory cake; another Von Freeman jam session is out of the can and ready for the grasping hands of Windy City jazz fans! Vonski is cat so good at what he does that even the most callous critical eye can’t help becoming weepy in admiration. The man has ...
Von Freeman & Ed Petersen: Von & Ed
by Derek Taylor
Down and dirty cutting contests are nothing new in Jazz and their allure seems to transcend any idiomatic boundaries in the music. There’s a long lineage to draw on from the spirited jousts of Lester Young and Herschel Evans in the early incarnations of Basie’s Orchestra to Long Tall Dex and Wardell Gray slugging it out ...
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