He’s so melodic and at the same time so lyrical. Sophisticated saxophone of the first order His playing is warm, but most of all it’s swinging and lush as well as full. Stan takes us south to Brazil in one of the most evocative solos he ever conjured.
Duke Ellington with Paul Gonsvales – ‘Diminuendo in Blue’įrom the very first note you’re hooked. If you know someone that doubts that Wayne is a genius, just play them this.ġ1. Dexter Gordon – ‘Stairway To The Stars’Ī standard, yes, but in Dexter’s hands it becomes something so much more than just, ‘a standard’. He was taken from us all too early, as this tune testifiesĨ. Sonny’s signature piece was included here for the first time on this album. ‘Trane loved to play ballads (and it would have been too easy to pick something from A Love Supreme) but this says everything about his deft touch, his lightness of being. So perfect that it sounds different every time you hear it. This is Adderley with Miles Davis and it is arguably one of the greatest jazz records of all time.
He is cushioned, but he is leading the charge in the softest, sexiest way imaginable. Every not is perfect, as though Stan the Man is being directed by some higher being, en route to heaven.īird + Strings = perfection, and this song is as perfect as it gets. If you are not in love when this record begins, you will be, by the time it finishes. It may be the most perfect saxophone solo of all time… The Hawk sounds so perfect on this, as if every ounce of emotion is being wrung from his saxophone.
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