Month: May 2014

Buddy Tate: The Texas Tenor

Besides the obviously aesthetic value of the music, what you must appreciate about these two cds by Buddy Tate was when he made these sessions back in 1975, absolutely NO ONE was playing acoustic mainstream jazz. Miles, Herbie, Wayne, Chick,…

Joshua Redman: Trios Live

Very few saxophonists dare into the territory of the trio format. Redman has done it before, and quite successfully, in various formats, but this is his first in concert one. The most important qualities a saxist has to have to…

WAR: Evolutionary

Still partying and low riding after all these years, War releases their first studio album of new material since Clinton was in the White House, and for good measure they make it a 2cd set by throwing in a remastered…