Andy Fusco - Out Of The Dark

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 65:09

Size: 150.3 MB

Styles: Saxophone jazz

Year: 1999

Art: Front

[6:09] 1. Out Of The Dark

[7:10] 2. Song For Andy

[5:27] 3. It's You Or No One

[8:17] 4. Epithaph For Sal Amico

[6:22] 5. Lament

[6:01] 6. Pritzin'

[8:36] 7. You've Changed

[8:39] 8. 2286 Seventh Avenue

[8:24] 9. You Don't Know What Love Is

This is a fun and often heated blowing date featuring a strong quintet of New York-based musicians. Altoist Andy Fusco and trumpeter Joe Magnarelli make for a mutually inspiring front line, while pianist Joel Weiskopf leads a strong rhythm section. They stretch out on four standards, Walt Weiskopf's "Out of the Dark," and four group originals. The musicians invigorate straight-ahead jazz, playing with spirit and creativity. It may not be overly innovative, but it is also never dull, with Fusco's Jackie McLean-inspired alto really pushing the group to play at its most passionate. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow

Full-bodied alto saxophonist has a piercing cry in his tone, not unlike Jackie McLean - he also has a melodic take on Bird-to-Coltrane harmonic vocabulary, a slippery conception of line that makes you think of Lee Konitz at bullet train velocity.

Recorded in Brooklyn, New York on December 10, 1998.

Andy Fusco (alto saxophone); Joe Magnarell (trumpet); Joel Weiskopf (piano); Peter Washington (bass); Billy Drummond (drums).

Out Of The Dark

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