Brian Landrus, For Now | The Vinyl Anachronist

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You have to be a heck of a jazz musician to assemble and lead a quartet that includes pianist Fred Hersch, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart. But sax/clarinet/flute player Brian Landrus–that’s Dr. Brian Landrus to you–has the talent to place his name at the top of that line up in his new album, For Now. Landrus is “an essential voice on low woodwinds,” a very interesting description I noticed on the press release, but just a few moments into For Now and you’ll know you’re hearing one of those once in a lifetime gatherings where four master jazz musicians are in the same room at the same time. Brian Landrus and his crew reminds me a little bit of Cannonball Adderley’s Somethin’ Else, when that alto sax player managed to get Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones and Art Blakey in the studio. Or you could look at the obvious example, Kind of Blue, where Davis corralled Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb to make what’s arguably the greatest jazz recording of all time. That sounds like a silly overstatement, that I’m comparing For Now to two legendary albums. But For Now does capture […]

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