October 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM
Only a handful of journeymen jazz players consistently win magazine polls of both critics and readers. Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas are longtime members of that club.
Both are coming to the Earshot Jazz Festival in the rarely-seen collaborative group Sound Prints, on Saturday, Oct. 18. It should the highlight of the four-week annual spree.
Lovano and Douglas have carved out a territory that could arguably be called a new mainstream — between roots revivalism and head-exploding experimentalism. No matter how far out they go — into dissonance, free-improvisation, tangential forms or extended instrumental techniques — their music is still blues-drenched, swinging jazz.
In a phone interview last month from his home in upstate New York, the Cleveland-raised Lovano said he owed his openness to both traditional and avant-garde sounds to his father, tenor saxophonist Tony “Big T” Lovano.
“I have to credit my dad for his passion and record collection,” said the 61-year-old sax man, whose raspy voice and beat-hipster patois are beloved by fans the world over. “He played with Tadd Dameron and heard Charlie Parker and Lester young live and played a jam session with Coltrane. He had all Coltrane’s records, man, right on into ‘Meditations’ and ‘Kulu Sé Mama,’ so I grew up listening to music as one expressive thing.”
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