Here is a personal selection of recordings in the saxophone trio format. These linear collaborations have been part of the jazz scene for at least seventy years now. The results are almost always illuminating and exhilarating, and a review of them offers a miniature history of saxophone styles.
Dave Liebman
Jazz Album Review: Miles Davis — An Excellent Homage to the Master
This album does an excellent job of recapturing some of the glory of the original Miles Davis recordings.
Jazz CD Survey: Snapshots and Concepts, Summer 2018
A baker’s dozen of recordings worth hearing . . . maybe even owning.
Jazz CD Review: “Distant Song” — Reflective Strength
Singer Fred Farell brings an introspective sensibility to this album and has gathered a group of songs that are appropriate for his introverted and quietly aspirational lyrics.
Jazz CD Review: “Compassion” — A Deft Homage to John Coltrane
Of course, neither saxophonist sounds precisely like Coltrane: there would be no point in trying.
CD Review: The Dave Liebman Group Stretches Out — Expansions Live
Dave Liebman’s band, like its adventurous leader, is more than willing to take a deep dive.
Music Review — The Fringe, Dave Liebman, & Rakalam Bob Moses: All In, In Deep
In less than an hour, there had been enough substance to send the first set crowd into the Cambridge night shaking their heads in amazement, spirits lifted, all else forgotten for a brief still time. Another houseful of listeners waited on the sidewalk for the second set. By Steve Elman The best way to hear […]