Jimmy Greene Quartet - Live at Smalls (2011/2025) [Official Digital Download]

Recorded live on February 19 & 20, 2010 at Smalls Jazz Club, Greenwich Village NYC.

Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Jimmy Greene has emerged as a positive young presence in the creative music world. Tony Hall of Jazzwise Magazine calls Greene, without doubt one of the most striking young tenors of recent years. As a composer, Greene has received several recent honors including the prestigious 2005 ASCAP / IAJE Commission in honor of Ornette Coleman. He was also named one of the 25 Young Rising Stars in Jazz by DownBeat Magazine in 1999. The Jimmy Greene Quartet Live At Smalls features a top-notch group of veteran New York players including Xavier Davis and Ugonna Okegwo (both of Tom Harrell s group) and drum legend Gregory Hutchinson.

"Greene's ‘Self Portrait #1’ is a complex affair, while the slow, brooding ‘Home’ (again on soprano) is intimate and spiritual, yet at the same time passionate and the closing ‘Bloomfield’ is up-tempo, with ferocious solos all round. An adventurous, spirited album. One of the label's best so far." (Tony Hall, Jazzwise)

Jimmy Greene, tenor saxophone
Xavier Davis, piano
Ugonna Okegwo, bass
Greg Hutchinson, drums

Tracklist:
01. Sense of Urgency (Live)
02. Ugly Beauty (Live)
03. Soul Music (Live)
04. Self Portrait #1 (Live)
05. Home (Live)
06. Bloomfield (Live)


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