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Greg Piccolo: Homage
by C. Michael Bailey
Roomful of Blues Tenor/Guitarist/Vocalist pays his respects to his saxophone influences in a strutting collection of blues, ballads, and show tunes.
I love the kind of piano the late Gene Harris played. Steeped deeply in the blues idiom, he almost should not be classified as a jazz pianist. His playing is soulful, funky, and rocking. It is high art when art is having fun. So with Greg Piccolo. Long time tenorist with A Roomful of Blues, Piccolo has occasionally stepped ...
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by Dave Nathan
It's a pleasant change to be able to see the relationship between an album, the music on it and the way it's played. On his fourth album, tenor saxophonist Greg Piccolo pays “homage" to great rough and ready, blues based, honking R & B tinged and all out swinging sax players like Illinois Jacquet, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and Piccolo's friend Red Prysock, with nods along the way to Ben Webster and Lester Young.
On the tunes which pay tribute to ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
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Born: May 10, 1951
