Word: saxophonists
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...second half of the program began with baritone saxophonist Fred Ho fronting the band on his composition "Liberation Genesis." The piece was written with the support of a grant from the Office for the Arts (OFA) while Ho was an undergraduate...
...Tenor saxophonist and recording artist Don Braden '85, also a Jazz Band alum, performed three tunes, including an arrangement commissioned by the OFA entitled "Landing Zone" and an arrangement of the Hank Mobley tune "Soul Station." The latter, which will appear on Braden's upcoming release for RCA/Victor entitled The Voice of the Saxophone, was performed by an all-Harvard Jazz Band Alumni 13-person "Octet." Outstanding solos by tenor player Anton Schwartz '89 and trumpet player Bob Merrill '81, as well as uplifting playing by the rhythm section, fully expressed the buoyant yet nostalgic atmosphere which characterized this reunion...
...octet performance led perfectly into the entrance of legendary Louisiana-born tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet. Jacquet proceeded to steal the show with his quirky stage antics and easy-going humor. Walking over to his alto saxophone after putting down his tenor, he turned to confide with the audience, "The little one gets mad when I pick up the big one!" Jacquet, who was the Kayden Artist in Residence in 1983 at Harvard, performed four tunes with the Band: Jacquet's own "Robbin's Nest," as well as "Body and Soul," "Flyin' Home" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street...
...released for two months, but the sound track is already here, on a just released Verve CD. As the jazzmen of yore might've said, it's a gas. The mix of 21 musicians includes veteran players whose stylistic roots go back to Kansas City and beyond--alto saxophonist David ("Fathead") Newman Jr., drummer Victor Lewis--and younger stars who actually seem to enjoy paying their respects to tradition--tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, guitarist Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride. On track after track, soloists of different generations find a common groove. On Froggy Bottom, altoist Newman, 66, and guitarist Whitfield...
Roberts creates his very own classic with Time and Circumstance, a theme album with emotional echoes of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, another classic exploration of the nature and meaning of love. This new CD, without words, tells the story of two lovers who meet, suffer an unspecified loss--it could be a child, it could be some other tragedy--and use that pain to renew their relationship. The songs may be elegiac and romantic, but Roberts and his trio--Wynton's brother Jason Marsalis on drums and David Grossman on bass--never trade emotional complexity...