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Jake Fryer
As well as playing Lead alto with the Four Tops he has played with Malene Mortensen at Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club for the London Jazz Festival and headlined at the Duc des Lombards Jazz Club in Paris.
His group are also featured in the BBC funded feature film ‘Nativity’ starring Alan Carr, Martin Freeman and Ricky Tomlinson.
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Jake Fryer / Bud Shank Quintet: In Good Company
by Raul d'Gama Rose
One of the apparent pitfalls that a young artist such as Jake Fryer finds himself in danger of, while making an album with star such as Bud Shank--especially when playing the same instrument, namely the alto saxophone--is that freedom of expression often gives way to reverence. The younger player might feel obligated to diminish him/herself, so that the mentor can be given his or her rightful place in the proceedings. However, this is certainly not one of the issues that ...
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by Edward Blanco
On April 2, 2009 the world lost another giant of jazz when alto saxophonist great Bud Shank died peacefully in his Tucson, Arizona home. But the master chose not to pass away with a whimper but, rather, with a bang, blowing his last notes the day before at Studio West in San Diego. Shank was one of Jake Fryer's greatest influences on the alto saxophone. Fryer, a British composer and alto saxophonist, had dreamed of pairing up with Shank for ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Young British composer/alto saxophonist Jake Fryer joins forces with veteran bopper Bud Shank and his favorite West Coast rhythm section, to form the Jake Fryer / Bud Shank Quintet for In Good Company. It's a lively and engaging album, a mix of standards and Fryer originals that brings the two alto saxophonists together for a recording date full of spontaneity, mutual respect and enjoyment. Sadly, it also proved to be the 82 year-old Shank's valedictory recording, as he was not ...
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
If there is still a west coast kind of jazz it's because players associated with the west coast still play music. That's obvious, of course, but even in its heyday the west coast style covered a broad group of stylistic tendencies, from the cool of a Chet Baker to the heat of Hampton Hawes. Bud Shank leaned toward to cooler alto style in his first years, making some marvelous records. Sometime in the '70s his style changed and he began ...
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Capri Records Releases Jake Fryer's New CD "In Good Company" Featuring Bud Shank, Mike Wofford, Bob Magnusson & Joe La Barbara
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Nancy Hudgins
Last Recording Date for Shank, Who Passed Away The Day After Recording When the British saxophonist Jake Fryer walked out of Studio West in San Diego on April 1st 2009 after completing this recording In Good Time (Capri Records, January 18, 2011), he couldn't have imagined that Bud Shank would not have survived another day. Bud went home the day after the recording and passed away a few hours later. “The last words Bud said to me with a warm ...
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Jake Fryer/Bud Shank Quintet - In Good Company (2011)
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Something Else!
By Pico Just prior to kickoff for the Fiesta Bowl played the other day between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Connecticut Huskies, the sad story was told about the starting UConn cornerback who was senselessly stabbed to death during the prior football season. The night before to his murder, Jasper Howard and his teammates celebrated a big victory over conference rival Louisville and the following day, just hours before his death, the 20 year old junior left behind a quote ...
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"The British Jake Fryer and the London BeBop Collective featuring Fryer on the alto sax, promises to be a treat for mainstream jazz buffs" --Sanil Sampat, The Times of India
"Jake Fryer Quartet-This soulful saxophonist will blow Mumbai away" --Colin D'Cruz, Hindustan Times
"The lightning guitar and sax of Bollywood Bop reveal impressive technique" --John Bungey, The Times
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