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And if your response is "Heard who?", that's probably about right, in terms of how it goes in the jazz world -- and that's out of whack, because Joe Ford is one of those journeymen jazz players who is under the radar screen but blowin' away folks who know about him...
I first heard him on MyCoy Tyner's Focal Point (great record, by the way!). What I didn't know is that he's originally from my adopted home town of Buffalo, so last night's gig was a sort of homecoming for him.
He was playing in drummer Nasar Abadey's Supernova -- and the quartet, based in D.C., I think, was KILLIN', playing all originals and evoking Trane's and McCoy's bands over the years, swinging and not swinging and going inside and outside and all over the place...
They're on tour, and if they show up in your neck of the woods, they're worthy -- check 'em out!
I first heard him on MyCoy Tyner's Focal Point (great record, by the way!). What I didn't know is that he's originally from my adopted home town of Buffalo, so last night's gig was a sort of homecoming for him.
He was playing in drummer Nasar Abadey's Supernova -- and the quartet, based in D.C., I think, was KILLIN', playing all originals and evoking Trane's and McCoy's bands over the years, swinging and not swinging and going inside and outside and all over the place...
They're on tour, and if they show up in your neck of the woods, they're worthy -- check 'em out!