Houston Person – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonHouston Person, the burly and bluesily expressive American tenorist, learned his craft in the early 1950s, a time when some of the earliest pioneers of jazz saxophone – Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster – were playing. Like Sonny Rollins and a handful of other survivors, Person is an eloquent messenger from a jazz era rooted in traditional blues, black church music, Broadway love songs and the impersonation, by sax, of a singer's tone palette.Whe...

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