Rudresh Mahanthappa In the 13 years since 2008, the alto saxophone award in the annual Jazz Journalists Association awards program has gone to either Rudresh Mahanthappa or Miguel Zenón 10 times. Despite having very different sounds and approaches to the saxophone, their creative paths have much in common. Both began recording around the turn of […]
Rudy Royston
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Hour 3: Tenor Sax Trios: JD Allen, Charles Owens, Mark Turner, Joshua Redman
Charles Owens Since Sonny Rollins’ landmark recordings in 1957 and 1958 (Way Out West, A Night at the Village Vanguard, Freedom Suite), tenor sax plus bass and drums has been an attractive format for many tenor players. As Michael J. West wrote in Jazz Times “…when jazz artists … began experimenting with chordless ensembles in […]