Alternative Contrafacts
Smulyan Gary
As the title references, the veteran baritone saxophonist’s trio has an engaging way of uncovering previously forgotten contrafacts (the practice of inventing new melody lines from existing...
Alternative Contrafacts
Smulyan Gary
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As the title references, the veteran baritone saxophonist’s trio has an engaging way of uncovering previously forgotten contrafacts (the practice of inventing new melody lines from existing...
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Baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan brings here his trademark "contrafacts" (a music making method that shares the chord progressions with other compositions) approach to this first SteepleChase leader outing challenging us (maybe?) to guess the tunes he is employing.
Smulyan whose professional career took shape by joining Woody Herman's Young Thundering Herds at age 22 (in 1978) has won Critics' and Readers' Poll awards numerous times by Downbeat and JazzTimes, among others. The Penguin Guide to Jazz once described Smulyan as "the leading American exponent of postbop baritone".
Personnel: Gary Smulyan (baritone saxophone), David Wong (bass), Rodney Green (drums)
Contents and tracklist
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
- Gary Smulyan, Rodney Green, David Wong
Awards and reviews
July 2018
As the title references, the veteran baritone saxophonist’s trio has an engaging way of uncovering previously forgotten contrafacts (the practice of inventing new melody lines from existing composition harmonies) of Waldron, Guiffre and Curson, among others.
