Magazine

JOE LOVANO

VILLAGE VANGUARD / FEBRUARY 11-23

There are not too many grown men (and women) who are NOT Black or Afro-Caribbean and have yet been able to pierce the celebrated Black codes from the underground and who have been able to penetrate the magical mysteries of the idiom of jazz. Happily, the tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano is one of them. Early in life, Joe paid his dues on bandstands with Jack McDuff, Lonnie Smith, Woody Herman, Mel Lewis and many others. In the 1990s, Joe formed the historic Saxophone Summit with fellow jazz elder sojourners Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker (upon whose passing Ravi Coltrane took his place). More recently, Joe has brought so much joy by interpreting the jazz songbook with trumpeter Dave Douglas and others. Soon he hosts a fabulous ensemble at a short residency at the Village Vanguard. RDG

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