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Live at Yoshi's

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You need to hear this C.D.

This is one smoking musician.

I'm not a professional reviewer, just an avid listener. I couldn't agree more with the comments of the reviewers at steveheckman.com. This guy can burn like Clifford Brown, and has the beautiful lyricism of a Joe Henderson. I hear the soul of Johnny Hartman, and the high energy of a Kurt Elling in his playing.

Had a chance to sample several of his other recordings, too. Heckman has gorgeous tone on all the reeds, and his styling of originals and standards on each of his recordings, whether as soloist or sideman, make for a great listening session.

Steve Heckman's saxophone first caught my ear as he was playing a John Coltrane tune on our local Jazz station a few years ago.

I immediately liked his style of playing so I went out and bought a couple of his recordings. I was not disappointed.

This one titled "Live at Yoshi's", is a good introduction to his work. This is a great straight ahead jazz recording with his own excellent quartet backing him up. It's a nice mix of some standards and his own original compositions.

I don't know the technical terms to describe Steve's saxophone playing but, his skills as an outstanding musician and his inspiration are plainly evident in his music. Especially on tracks such as his version of John Coltrane's "Equinox" and

Steve's original swingin "This is the Moment". To sum up. Just great sounding Jazz played superbly. I highly recommend it!