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Saxophone Summit: Street Talk

Read "Street Talk" reviewed by Chris May


Since coming together in 1999 to celebrate the late-period work of John Coltrane, the aptly named Saxophone Summit has lost only one original member. Michael Brecker passed in 2007 and was replaced by Ravi Coltrane, who has in turn been replaced by Greg Osby. The other principals, Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman, are unchanged, as is the accompanying trio of pianist Phil Markowitz, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Billy Hart. As its name claims, the ensemble is ...

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Saxophone Summit: Visitation

Read "Visitation" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


La formazione dei Saxophone Summit esiste ormai da diversi anni. Nella sua prima versione, quella di Gathering of Spirits (Telarc -2004), al fianco di Dave Liebman e Joe Lovano c'era anche lo scomparso Michael Brecker, qui sostituito da Ravi Coltrane (ma la registrazione è del febbraio 2011, mentre dallo scorso anno Coltrane è stato a sua volta sostituito da Greg Osby). Considerando che nella sezione ritmica troviamo due leggende come Cecil McBee e Billy Hart, più un pianista ...

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Extended Analysis

Saxophone Summit: Visitation

Read "Saxophone Summit: Visitation" reviewed by John Kelman


After two recordings for Telarc--2004's Gathering of Spirits, with the late Michael Brecker, and 2008's Seraphic Light, with Ravi Coltrane assuming the position vacated by Brecker following his untimely passing the previous year--Saxophone Summit is back with Visitation. Funded by the (for jazz) early crowd-funding ArtistShare imprint, it demonstrates the difference between recording for a relatively major label and one where the group can, it seems, call all the shots. Not that the previous recordings were in any ...

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Live Review

Saxophone Summit: New York, April 20, 2011

Read "Saxophone Summit: New York, April 20, 2011" reviewed by Ryan Lippell


Saxophone SummitJazz Standard, Impulse! Nights--Africa/BrassNew York, NYApril 20, 2011 For Dave Liebman, it was the orange spines. For others, it was the laminated, emblematic covers with gatefolds. For everyone, Impulse! was the record label that best committed to vinyl the golden age of jazz: a fertile crescent between the late '50s and early '70s that simultaneously showcased all the branches of the jazz evolutionary tree, from Satchmo to Duke to Coltrane. To commemorate the ...

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Album Review

Saxophone Summit: Saxophone Summit: Gathering of Spirits

Read "Saxophone Summit: Gathering of Spirits" reviewed by John Kelman


The spirit of John Coltrane looms heavy over the proceedings of Saxophone Summit: Gathering of Spirits , where saxophonists Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano commit to disc the occasional grouping that they have participated in since '96. The result is something a little surprising in this era of “super groups": a trio whose collective whole is clearly greater than the sum of the parts, representing an uncompromising ensemble that gets more exciting and adventurous as the one hour ...

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Recording

Joe Lovano, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman Fan-funded Artistshare Recording

Joe Lovano, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman Fan-funded Artistshare Recording

Source: Brian Camelio

We are very pleased to introduce the Saxophone Summit: Visitation CD Project. This unique fan-funded ArtistShare project brings together some of the most monumental figures in jazz: saxophone titans Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, and Ravi Coltrane will join forces with an equally dynamic rhythm section featuring pianist Phil Markowitz, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Billy Hart to create an exciting album featuring all-new music. Participants in Sax Summit's Visitation Project on ArtistShare will receive access to exclusive artist interviews, sketches ...

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Festival

Newport Jazz Festival Saxophone Summit!

Newport Jazz Festival Saxophone Summit!

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations

NEWPORT, RI—Jazz is the ultimate music of collaboration—or, as they say in today's younger generation, “collab." For six decades, George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival® —now presented by Natixis Global Asset Management—has been the scene of many exciting and historic mash-ups featuring saxophonists. This year's edition of the festival exhibits an unprecedented array of sax masters old and new. Tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane could have done it the easy way; he could have cashed in on being the son of John ...

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Radio

Saxophone Summit on Reeds and Deeds II

Saxophone Summit on Reeds and Deeds II

Source: Lydia Liebman

This Sunday's broadcast of “Reeds & Deeds II" will feature an exclusive backstage interview with the Saxophone Summit: Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart and Phil Markowitz. The Saxophone Summit will be performing in New York City at Birdland this weekend through Saturday. The segment will be broadcast during the February 6th broadcast at 6:30 pm on wecb.fm. “Reeds & Deeds II" is broadcast on WECB Online Radio from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. It is ...

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Festival

L.A. Jazz Collective Fall Festival Saxophone Summit 2008

L.A. Jazz Collective Fall Festival Saxophone Summit 2008

Source: All About Jazz

The biggest jazz event of the week has to be the L.A. Jazz Collectives Fall Festival, a three-night, four-venue bash that begins Friday at the Pasadena Jazz Institute.

Headlines with the Josh Aguilar Group, Damon Zick and Friends, the Joe Bagg Quintet (with trumpeter Ron Stout) and the Steve Cotter Group; then Saturday at PJI again with the Scott Cummings Group, the Mike Scott Quartet (with pianist Josh Nelson), the Josh Welchez Quartet and the Ryan McGillicuddy Quartet. Matt Otto ...

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Radio

New from Jazz Video Guy: Saxophone Summit Michael Brecker Tribute

New from Jazz Video Guy:  Saxophone Summit Michael Brecker Tribute

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack announces the debut of his new series, the Saxophone Summit Podcasts. The seven-part documentary focuses on their second Telarc recording, “Seraphic Light," which drops on June 3. The group, featuring David Liebman, Joe Lovano and Ravi Coltrane plays Birdland in New York June 10 to 14. The seven films, available starting today on YouTube and iTunes include: MAY 22 :: Message to Mike - Michael Brecker JUN 5 :: Cosmic Saxman - David ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Street Talk

Enja Records
2019

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Visitation

ArtistShare
2015

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Visitation

ArtistShare
2014

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Saxophone Summit:...

Telarc Records
2004

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