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Dave Schildkraut
He recorded only one album as a leader, in 1979. However, the album was released only in 2000 by Endgame Records as Last Date. By this time, Schidkraut's playing style was described as having adjusted from youthful mimicry of Parker to showing influence from the likes of John Coltrane, Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz.
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Dave Schildkraut: Key Ingredient
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Alto saxophonist Dave Schildkraut didn't record on a bad album. Except perhaps his own leadership session, at the tail end of his recording career in 1979. By then, he sounded coarse and tapped out. But if you look through his discography and listen to the recordings, the New York jazz session player managed to draw only aces. There isn't a dud in the bunch. Not even a slightly sub-par jazz recording. Schildkraut's sound was routinely and somewhat unfairly compared to ...
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Dave Schildkraut, Last Date, August 12, 1979
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
The fact that the name Dave Schildkraut doesn't always ring bells among the jazz cognoscenti constitutes one of the sad realities of jazz history. He appeared with a flourish on a Miles Davis Prestige session, Solar (on alto), in 1954. He played with some notables before and after that, and appeared as sideman on a few other records, but mostly was lost in a haze of obscurity. To me he epitomizes the falling off the face of the earth" syndrome. ...
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