Search results for "Joe Lovano"

Joe Lovano: Duke Ellington Sound of Love (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 08, 08

This ballad is a late Mingus composition, which the bassist recorded in two versions (an instrumental as well as voca...

Joe Lovano: Body and Soul (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Many critics will argue that Joe Lovano’s From the Soul is one of the great albums of the 1990s. Am I among them? You...

Joe Lovano: Powerhouse (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 25, 09

You can hear how much Joe Lovano enjoys playing with his band "Us Five" on this loose, swinging track from his 21st B...

Paul Motian (with Joe Lovano & Bill Frisell): Yahllah (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

In the last 15 years, many modern groups have become frequent visitors to the Vanguard stage – none with more re...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Joe Lovano: I Waited For You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 26, 08

It's puzzling how Hank Jones, at age 90, is still sometimes described as a "journeyman" or "veteran sideman." Here is...

Joe Lovano: Six and Four (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 10, 09

Although this CD's title comes from Joe Lovano's composition "Joyous Encounter," those words apply even more to the s...

Joe Lovano: I'm All For You (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Ever since Coleman Hawkins’ famous Swing Era recording of “Body and Soul,” subsequent tenor saxophonists have conside...

Joe Lovano & Hank Jones: Alone Together (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 30, 08

Seldom was a CD more aptly named. This is truly a Joyous Encounter. I would be hard pressed to name a tenor saxopho...

Jovino Santos Neto & Weber Iago featuring Joe Lovano: Wave (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 13, 08

Joe Lovano joins pianists Jovino Santos Neto and Weber Iago for a spectacular splash through Jobim's "Wave." While re...

Joe Lovano: Dewey Said (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 13, 09

In explaining the origins of “Dewey Said,” a track from Joe Lovano’s second Soul Note release, Village Rhythm, the sa...

Joe Lovano (featuring Elvin Jones): Impressionistic (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 03, 08

Performing in the pianoless trio format, Elvin Jones's playing on this track is precisely what its title suggests – t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES

     Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...

Joe Lovano: New York Fascination (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

“New York Fascination” was written for a Jazz at Lincoln Center commission, as were two other pieces on this disc. Ho...

Joe Lovano: Fort Worth (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Fort Worth was the birthplace of Ornette Coleman, and this recording is an exultant birthday tribute for the avant-ga...

Jim Hall: Bon Ami (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 03, 08

Guitarist extraordinaire Jim Hall's harmonically challenging composition "Bon Ami" effectively elicits Joe Lovano's s...

Bob Belden: Danza D'Amore (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 20, 08

The finest seven minutes of Bob Belden's ambitious Black Dahlia project come on "Danza d'Amore," with Joe Lovano as f...

The Stryker/Slagle Band: Hopewell's Last (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music September 08, 08

On this Steve Slagle-penned ballad, the masterful sax duo of Lovano on tenor and Slagle on soprano opens this lazy, m...

George Garzone: Have You Met Miss Jones (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

Garzone is of course best known as a member of the legendary Boston trio The Fringe, which he co-founded in 1972. Fo...

Paul Motian: 9 x 9 (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 21, 09

An unusual take on collectively improvised free jazz, featuring an amped-up Bill Frisell and two aggressive, stylis...

Sonny Fortune: On Second and Fifth (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 02, 09

Sonny Fortune turned 70 on May 19, 2009—he’s yet another "senior citizen" jazz musician whose chronological age does ...

John Scofield: Let's Say We Did (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 20, 08

What do you get when you mix fusion, funk, soul and bop? Perhaps a guitarist sounding like John Scofield. Add a pench...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR

          The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...

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