Tenor Legacy

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Tenor Legacy
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Studio album by Joe Lovano
Released 1993
Recorded Recorded June 18, 1993
Genre Jazz
Length66:09
Label Blue Note
Producer Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano chronology
Universal Language
(1992) Universal Language1992		Tenor Legacy
(1993)		 Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard
(1994) Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard1994

Tenor Legacy is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano recorded in 1993 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Joe Lovano American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist

Joseph Salvatore Lovano is an American jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, described by critic Chris Kelsey of Allmusic as "the tenor titan for our times" and relentlessly creative and innovative, earning a Grammy Award and several mentions on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls. He is married to jazz singer Judi Silvano with whom he records and performs. Lovano was a longtime member of a trio led by drummer Paul Motian.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "Lovano has created a set with a great deal of variety and some surprising moments". [2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

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Track listing

All compositions by Joe Lovano except as indicated
  1. "Miss Etna" - 6:30
  2. "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:44
  3. "Blackwell's Message" - 5:36
  4. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) - 4:31
  5. "Introspection" (Thelonious Monk) - 9:05
  6. "In the Land of Ephesus" - 6:58
  7. "To Her Ladyship" (Billy Frazier) - 9:03
  8. "Web of Fire" - 5:51
  9. "Rounder's Mood" (Booker Little) - 8:20
  10. "Bread and Wine" - 3:31

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Joshua Redman American jazz saxophonist and composer

Joshua Redman is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

Mulgrew Miller American pianist

Mulgrew Miller was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. As a child he played in churches and was influenced on piano by Ramsey Lewis and then Oscar Peterson. Aspects of their styles remained in his playing, but he added the greater harmonic freedom of McCoy Tyner and others in developing as a hard bop player and then in creating his own style, which influenced others from the 1980s on.

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References

  1. ↑ Joe Lovano discography accessed July 21, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 21, 2011
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