Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MESSENGERS: GOLDEN BOY (Colpix). Blakey doubled the length and breadth of five pieces from this musical (Lorna's Here, I Want to Be with You) and added Yes, I Can, which was cut out of the Broadway production, but makes a showpiece for Wayne Shorter's quicksilver tenor sax. The ten-member band, backed by Drummer Blakey, works such solid changes on the textures and rhythms of the score that it seems to come from Birdland rather than Broadway...
Jazz NOW'S THE TIME! (RCA Victor). After years spent stubbornly exploring the back roads of modern jazz, Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins knows his way unerringly around the territory. He goes off like a firecracker in Miles Davis' Four, takes a postmeridian jaunt in John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris, nods to Charlie Parker in his dry-eyed blues Now's the Time, makes Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight sound fathoms deep...
SALT AND PEPPER (Impulse). On the theory that two tenor saxes are better than one, Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves spur each other to new heights in Salt and Pepper, S'posin' and Perdido, though Stitt, a lively and eloquent musical descendant of Lester Young, outplays the darker, deeper-voiced Gonsalves...
BLACK PEARLS (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane is the featured soloist, and he zooms boldly off to do some fine, abstract skywriting at Mach 1. Meanwhile, back at the piano, Red Garland waits to deliver earthbound but agreeable interludes of up-tempo swing...
BODY AND SOUL: A JAZZ AUTOBIOGRAPHY (RCA Victor). Coleman Hawkins, the granddaddy of the tenor sax, says he got his famous full tone from trying to play over seven other horns. He managed so well that he has outblown and outclassed most other saxophonists of the past three decades. These 16 selections (1927 to 1963) bring back not only the Hawk but McKinney's Cotton Pickers, the Mound City Blue Blowers, and the bands of Fletcher Henderson, Lionel Hampton and Red Allen as well...