SFJAZZ Collective: SFJAZZ Collective 2
CML call number: CD/JAZZ/SFJAZZ
Nate Chinen wrote in the New York Times: "Two years ago, SFJAZZ, the institution behind the San Francisco Jazz Festival, started an eight-piece house band called the SFJAZZ Collective. It was a West Coast answer to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, with the tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman filling the Wynton Marsalis role. Yet the upstart ensemble set its own agenda, including original contributions as well as repertory work. Its inaugural season surveyed the music of Ornette Coleman. … Last year Mr. Redman and his colleagues addressed … John Coltrane, and the results, recorded on tour, make up this album. Strikingly, 'SFJAZZ Collective 2' doesn't suggest either a history lesson or an all-star confab. It's just a vivid and engaging acoustic jazz outing, quite possibly one of the best we'll hear this year. Mr. Redman is in fine form throughout. … There's as much to be said for Nicholas Payton's outstanding trumpet work on Coltrane's 'Moment's Notice' and … Bobby Hutcherson's vibraphone filigree on 'Naima.' … The rare accomplishment of the SFJAZZ Collective is that it can contain such fierce talent without succumbing to it" (3/13/06).
Nate Chinen wrote in the New York Times: "Two years ago, SFJAZZ, the institution behind the San Francisco Jazz Festival, started an eight-piece house band called the SFJAZZ Collective. It was a West Coast answer to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, with the tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman filling the Wynton Marsalis role. Yet the upstart ensemble set its own agenda, including original contributions as well as repertory work. Its inaugural season surveyed the music of Ornette Coleman. … Last year Mr. Redman and his colleagues addressed … John Coltrane, and the results, recorded on tour, make up this album. Strikingly, 'SFJAZZ Collective 2' doesn't suggest either a history lesson or an all-star confab. It's just a vivid and engaging acoustic jazz outing, quite possibly one of the best we'll hear this year. Mr. Redman is in fine form throughout. … There's as much to be said for Nicholas Payton's outstanding trumpet work on Coltrane's 'Moment's Notice' and … Bobby Hutcherson's vibraphone filigree on 'Naima.' … The rare accomplishment of the SFJAZZ Collective is that it can contain such fierce talent without succumbing to it" (3/13/06).
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