Blues All Ways

David Liebman Group (Artist), Dave Liebman (Artist), Vic Juris (Artist), Tony Marino (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: OmniTone
• ASIN: B000WVZ99E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,846 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Elvis the Pelvis

2. Down Time

3. Riz's Blues

4. Blues Mirage

5. Compared to Who

6. 64 Strings and a Reed

7. Blues Tripper

8. Bessie's Blues

Editorial Reviews

Review

"While the blues is one of the clearest roots of conventional jazz tradition, few but saxophonist David Liebman could release an album that covers as many stylistic bases as Blues All Ways.... Liebman couldn t have picked a better title than Blues All Ways — an album that proves that even the simplest of premises has infinite potential in the hands of a group that's this well-connected and stylistically unfettered." --—AllAboutJazz.com

Product Description

From the long-standing ensemble of one of modern saxophone's most respected, individualistic, and free-ranging voices, David Liebman's eminently listenable tribute to one of the most beloved and versatile musical roots of jazz and rock: the blues.

Featuring Lieb on tenor and soprano saxes (playing like you may never have heard him!) and Vic Juris on electric and acoustic guitars, Blues All Ways runs the blues gamut from Memphis-style shuffles to Kind of Blue-like ethereality to Coltrane-like modal burn to Eddie Harris-like funk.

From the liner notes:

"The first real music that I got into was '50s rock and roll," recalls Lieb, listing "Hound Dog" and "Rock around the Clock" as memorable examples of the era's R&B-based pop music culture and owing his first feeling for the tenor sax to tunes like Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser" and the Champs' "Tequila." "I used to listen to Martin Block's ‘Make-Believe Ballroom,' listing my own "top 25 of the week' while collecting 45 singles," Lieb continues.  "That was really where I first heard music, so in some ways making this blues record is full circle for me."

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