Alex LoRe

LoRe is making the connections among about 70 years’ worth of contemplative, articulate and light-toned players, people who can find the emotional node of a ballad where modesty turns nearly to shame, and also locate a single, fine, well-placed note through abstraction or understatement: Johnny Hodges, Lee Konitz, Mark Turner. – Ben Ratliff, NY Times The saxophonist’s bold and precise playing can encompass grooves from the atonal to the melodic, and shades anything he contributes to with flair and elegance. – Catalina Maria Johnson, Downbeat Magazine A promising career of substance

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LoRe is making the connections among about 70 years’ worth of contemplative, articulate and light-toned players, people who can find the emotional node of a ballad where modesty turns nearly to shame, and also locate a single, fine, well-placed note through abstraction or understatement: Johnny Hodges, Lee Konitz, Mark Turner. – Ben Ratliff, NY Times The saxophonist’s bold and precise playing can encompass grooves from the atonal to the melodic, and shades anything he contributes to with flair and elegance. – Catalina Maria Johnson, Downbeat Magazine A promising career of substance. – Cadence Magazine LoRe is that rare young alto saxophonist who eschews the dominance of Charlie Parker…creates richly melodic lines with harmonic daring and a consistently warm, inviting tone. – George Kanzler, Hot House Magazine …[LoRe’s] alto lines develop intelligently, making many of the tracks sound as if one was watching the creative process in real time. – Richard Kamins, Step Tempest His embrace of classically-oriented ideals and strategies allows him to move beyond standard jazz forms and tired formulas, yielding music of great(er) interest. – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

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