Bootstrap Hess

Fred Hess - Extended Family (2002) {Tapestry 76004-2}
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© 2002 Tapestry | 76004-2
Jazz / Modern Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

Saxophonist/educator Fred Hess resides in Colorado and has been the recipient of the national Julius Hemphill Award for Jazz Composition, amid recording stints with jazz-rock drummer Ginger Baker and others. With this effort, Hess leads a quartet of like-minded modern jazz notables through a compact, yet loosely organized set, consisting of off-kilter bop motifs and free-form exercises. One of the more notable characteristics of this affair has to do with Hess and trumpeter Paul Smoker's warmly executed unison choruses. The soloists converge for a sequence of punchy arrangements while also veering off into explorative-type dialogues.