Escoffery, Wayne / Uptown
| Album: | Uptown | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Escoffery, Wayne | Added: | Dec 2009 | |
| Label: | Posi-Tone | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2010-01-10 | Pull Date: | 2010-03-14 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Mar 7 | Feb 21 | Feb 14 | Jan 31 | Jan 24 | Jan 17 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 29, 2018: | No Cover, No Minimum
No Desert |
4. | Feb 24, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
Cross Bronx |
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| 2. | Aug 31, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum
Gulf Of Aqaba |
5. | Jul 22, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum
Cross Bronx |
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| 3. | Jul 28, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum: Friday Edition
Gulf Of Aqaba |
6. | May 27, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum
No Desert |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2010-01-10
Reviewed 2010-01-10
WAYNE ESCOFFERY: Uptown
Posi-Tone, 2009
BOP/SOUL-JAZZ – This well-named disc from tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery pulses with urban energy and old-school soul, contrasting firmly modernistic jazz statements with swinging feel-good grooves. Escoffery’s solos are like towering monoliths, huge, dense and hard as stone, as his notes spill over in seemingly endless streams as the rest of his quartet offers thick, buoyant support. No new ground is broken here, but Escoffery’s titanic sax sound is always welcome.
Wayne Escoffery - saxophone
Avi Rothbard - guitar
Gary Versace - organ
Jason Brown - drums
* * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 6, 8
1. 5:34 – serious swing, thick groove: sax churns, calm guitar, modern organ
2. 5:10 – old-school soul-jazz swing on Duke Ellington classic, kinda bluesy
3. 5:34 – chugging big-city groove: guitar glides, drums bash, dense sax solo
4. 5:28 – ballad: organ makes it syrupy, but sax is romantic & guitar is lively
5. 1:03 – mysterious organ, intro to track 6…
6. 5:55 – tense with dragging tempo, hints of faux-exoticism, great sax solo
7. 4:44 – easygoing soul-jazz; danceable, summery feel, groovin’ solos
8. 8:45 – in waltz time, serious feel: guitar & sax wrap around upbeat organ
9. 2:10 – happy soulful sway, a bit of sass, long fade-out
[ Fo ] 01/10/10
Posi-Tone, 2009
BOP/SOUL-JAZZ – This well-named disc from tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery pulses with urban energy and old-school soul, contrasting firmly modernistic jazz statements with swinging feel-good grooves. Escoffery’s solos are like towering monoliths, huge, dense and hard as stone, as his notes spill over in seemingly endless streams as the rest of his quartet offers thick, buoyant support. No new ground is broken here, but Escoffery’s titanic sax sound is always welcome.
Wayne Escoffery - saxophone
Avi Rothbard - guitar
Gary Versace - organ
Jason Brown - drums
* * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 6, 8
1. 5:34 – serious swing, thick groove: sax churns, calm guitar, modern organ
2. 5:10 – old-school soul-jazz swing on Duke Ellington classic, kinda bluesy
3. 5:34 – chugging big-city groove: guitar glides, drums bash, dense sax solo
4. 5:28 – ballad: organ makes it syrupy, but sax is romantic & guitar is lively
5. 1:03 – mysterious organ, intro to track 6…
6. 5:55 – tense with dragging tempo, hints of faux-exoticism, great sax solo
7. 4:44 – easygoing soul-jazz; danceable, summery feel, groovin’ solos
8. 8:45 – in waltz time, serious feel: guitar & sax wrap around upbeat organ
9. 2:10 – happy soulful sway, a bit of sass, long fade-out
[ Fo ] 01/10/10
Track Listing
| 1. | No Desert | 5. | Road From Eilat | |||
| 2. | I Got It Bad | 6. | Gulf Of Aqaba | |||
| 3. | Cross Bronx | 7. | Nu Soul | |||
| 4. | You Know I Care | 8. | Maya's Waltz | |||
| 9. | Easy Now | |||||