Melissa Aldana - Second Cycle

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:59
Size: 169,7 MB
Art: Front

( 7:54)  1. Ellemeno
( 6:23)  2. Meeting Them
( 9:11)  3. Liquiescence
( 6:21)  4. First Cycle
( 4:56)  5. Second Cycle
( 7:10)  6. Free Fall
( 5:25)  7. My Own World
( 7:15)  8. Polyphemus
( 7:24)  9. I'll Be Seeing You
(11:54) 10. L Line

Melissa Aldana may still be in her early twenties, but the tenor saxophonist already knows what it is like to play with big jazz names like saxophonists George Coleman, Benny Golson and George Garzone. In a short time, Aldana has found her own place in the difficult New York jazz scene because she has developed a new voice that has commanded the attention of both the public and her peers. An obvious talent, one which made Greg Osby stand up and take notice when he first heard her at Boston's Berklee College of Music, combined with a marked perseverance and meticulous study routine is the formula that has brought her to the front line of jazz. She says that Don Byas, Mark Turner, Joe Lovano and Walter Smith III are the four saxophonists who really made her change how she approaches her career, but she continues to keep a close eye on the primary jazz legends. 

Aldana recorded her second album, Second Cycle (2012), for Osby's Inner Circle Music imprint (as she did her first), and she travelled to Spain to perform it, along with drummer Francisco Mela and bassist Dee Jay Foster. She started this short tour with the closing concert of Valencia's Jimmy Glass International Jazz Festival, clearly happy return after after two years. And despite being absorbed in the promotion of her new CD, this enterprising saxophonist is also working with a new trio featuring Mela and bassist Pablo Menares. This project will be debuted in January, 2013 at the New York Jazz Gallery. ~ Marta Ramon   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/melissa-aldana-living-a-second-cycle-melissa-aldana-by-marta-ramon.php#.U5oGTiioqdk

Second Cycle

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