Tim Warfield: A Sentimental Journey

"The tenor saxophonist Tim Warfield is pointing toward a jazz sound that reaches back 60 years in real time and a psychic millennium away in media time. You’ll hear musicians playing licks on 'A Sentimental Journey' that were comfortably modern in the late 1950s. But there’s a way to do that without seeming dogmatic or conceptually forced or just left behind; jazz is a cumulative art, a continuity.
… It’s all standards, not all ballads but almost; the quartet, with the trumpeter Terell Stafford, the organist Pat Bianchi and the drummer Byron Landham, takes long enough on each track to get in there completely. … Mr. Warfield and Mr. Stafford have been playing together for more than 20 years, and their combined sound as they harmonize on themes, as well as the way they build solos off of each others’ scattered ideas, is where the soul of the record lies. The music feels plush at heat-wave tempos; it takes its time and assumes you’re not going anywhere" (Ben Ratliff, "New CDs," New York Times, 7/11/10).
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