Chicago Tribune — The sound of Ari Brown's tenor saxophone could cut through steel. Immense and penetrating, it speaks to the majesty of the Chicago tenor tradition, evoking memories of Gene Ammons and Von Freeman, Johnny Griffin and Fred Anderson and many more. Over ... more info

Chicago Tribune — Every jazz lover has a favorite tenor saxophonist — especially in Chicago, where the thundering instrument seems to personify the city's rough-and-tumble character. To me, the greatest always was — and surely always will be — Johnny Griffin, a ... more info

Guardian Music — Unassuming master of post-bop jazz who refused to leave his native ChicagoTo get the real point of Von Freeman, the American tenor saxophonist who has died aged 88, you had to hear him in one of the Chicago jazz lounges that he inhabited throughout h... more info

All About Jazz — During the late 1950's and early 1960's tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was a very busy man, playing in well regarded groups with Johnny Griffin and this group with the organist Shirley Scott. The organ and tenor format was very popular in th... more info

All About Jazz — Several years ago I had the pleasure to meet Von Freeman and for a while became a regular at the vaunted New Apartment Lounge Tuesday-night jam sessions on the south-side of ChiTown...(photo from http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/) where he has a ban... more info

Guardian Music — Devoted jazz drummer for Oscar Peterson and Ronnie ScottIn his autobiography, the Canadian jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson described the drummer Martin Drew, who has died aged 66 after a sudden heart attack, as "a very happy-go-lucky, joke-quoting pers... more info

All About Jazz — IN + OUT RECORDS, one of Europe's most enterprising and acclaimed independent jazz labels, with a reputation as a producer of recordings of the highest musical and technical quality established through its twenty-plus years of releasing cutting edge ... more info

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All About Jazz — Chicago is a historic capital of early jazz and post-World War II blues, but in the 1950s and early 60s it also had a thriving hardbop scene. While jazz luminaries such as Gene Ammons, Eddie Harris and Johnny Griffin all emerged from this scene, it a... more info