Title: Rain Or Shine Artist: Person, Houston Label: Highnote Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 632375730925 Genre: Jazz
The soulfully expressive tenor saxophonist, Houston Person learned his craft in the 1950s, a time when some of the earliest pioneers of jazz saxophone - Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster - were playing. Like Sonny Rollins and a handful of others, Person is an eloquent messenger who is rooted in traditional blues, church music, Broadway love songs and the mimicking of a singer's tonal palette and phrasing. His blues feel led to a renaissance among acid-jazz clubbers years later, and his sound has become uniquely characterful: an idiosyncratic edit of all he has learned, expressed in shrugging hoots, briefly cantering bop sprints, spacious and softly blown ballads. With his long-time friend and colleague, cornetist Warren Vach and guitarist Rodney Jones, Person's burnished sophistication, assured elegance and poise are again on display giving listeners an object lesson in unfussy, no-gimmicks music-making.
Tracks: 1.1 Come Rain or Come Shine 1.2 132nd and Madison 1.3 Everything Must Change 1.4 Learnin' the Blues 1.5 I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone 1.6 Soupbone 1.7 Never Let Me Go 1.8 Our Day Will Come 1.9 Danny Boy
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