Alexander follows on tenor with an equally compelling voice.
His working band includes Derek Douget on tenor saxophone, Chris Rob on piano, Solomon Dorsey on bass and Joe Blaxx on drums.
MICHAËL ATTIAS TWINES OF COLESION (Wednesday) An alto saxophonist and composer with a taste for inquisitive frictions, Michaël Attias presents a working band featuring Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Russ Lossing on Wurlitzer piano, John Hebert on bass and Satoshi Takeishi on drums.
(Chinen) EIVIND OPSVIK'S OVERSEAS (Sunday) Eivind Opsvik is a Norwegian bassist-composer who carefully balances avant-gardism against poplike lyricism in this working band with Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Jacob Sacks on piano and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
(Chinen) EIVIND OPSVIK (Sunday and Monday) Mr. Opsvik is a bassist with an experimental streak but also a deep connection to melody, as he demonstrates on Sunday night with his working band Overseas: Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Jacob Sacks on keyboards and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
Work on accepting the general tenor of things at your work, in your home, and in your relationships.
He works here with exceptionally gifted partners: Mark Turner on tenor saxophone, Drew Gress on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums.
It works also because most of the album is on tenor, which is a lower, more male voice: Odysseus.
On the surface it can seem his starkest, most forbidding work: a series of rugged duets with only Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Mr. Ali on drums, each starting with a theme that grows exponentially into scale-jumping, rhythmic flurries.
At the 1991 Chicago Jazz Festival he presented "Chicago Cantata," a work combining gospel choirs, blues musicians and two jazz soloists: Von Freeman on tenor saxophone and Lester Bowie on trumpet.
