Amanda Sedgwick

Amanda Sedgwick: Reunion

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2004

Here's yet another clear refutation of the ludicrous assertion that women jazz musicians are unable to measure up to their male counterparts. I know nothing about alto saxophonist Amanda Sedgwick--as Reunion was recorded in Stockholm, she may be Swedish--but I do know a player when I hear one, and Sedgwick not only holds her own on this engaging bop-based quartet/quintet date, she overshadows everyone including her seasoned front-line companion, the American trumpeter Philip Harper.

In trying to put my finger ...