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Slow Poke: Listen Here

By Ludovico Granvassu
October 10, 2024
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Here is a track in which the simmer might be low, but the temperature is definitely very high. "Listen Here" is a composition which

Eddie Harris

saxophone, tenor
1934 - 1996

" data-original-title="" title="">Eddie Harris wrote and played with his, usual, fat groove. This, however, is a sultrier rendition by a band that made the savoring of each note, and the development of a hypnotic feel, their M.O.:

Slow Poke

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Slow Poke, namely

Michael Blake

saxophone, tenor
b.1964

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Blake on saxophone,

David Tronzo

guitar, electric
b.1957

" data-original-title="" title="">David Tronzo on guitar,

Tony Scherr

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Tony Scherr on bass and

Kenny Wollesen

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Kenny Wollesen on drums.

Their debut, At Home, became a cult album and quickly sold out. Now it is back in an expanded version with bonus material on P&M Records. One of the reissues of the year!

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I'm the Editor-in-Chief of All About Jazz Italia, host of Mondo Jazz on Radio Free Brooklyn and was once visited by Frank Zappa's ghost.... he was funny too.

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