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The Improvisor

Von Freeman Format: Audio CD
5 out of 5 stars 1 customer review
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Von Intro
  2. If I Should Lose You
  3. Ski-Wee
  4. What Is This Thing Called Love?
  5. Dam That Dream
  6. Blue Bossa
  7. Blues For Billie
  8. I Like The Sunrise

Product Details

  • Audio CD (August 27, 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Premonition
  • ASIN: B00006GA5C
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,955 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Chicago Landmark
By John F. Temmerman on February 1, 2003
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Von Freeman, an iconoclastic jazzman, a tenor sax player, is a fixture on the Chicago jazz Scene. Long regarded as among the top players in town, he still gigs regularly in a weekly jam session he heads on the south side of town weekly, among many other venues. He does all this at the age of 79.
Von's style is all his own. Clearly having learned the lessons of Bebop, he chooses instead to play inside changes when he wishes with an outside (free jazz) tone, again when he wishes, playing lines with incredible speed and dexterity.
This live CD does not disappoint. It opens with a short warmup, then Von playing solo (as in without anybody else) on the standard If I Should Lose You. His playing on this cut is especially notable. Playing alone on sax is tough. Real tough. He manages to outline the changes when he wishes, plays with a solid command of time and with a big yet lyrical sound when he chooses a different sound from his free jazz tone.
Next are the first 4 quartet cuts, Ski-Wee (A Freeman original, based on the chords of How High The Moon/Ornithology), a burning version of What Is This Thing Called Love, Darn That Dream and a deliberate version of Blue Bossa. His regular quartet, with Mike Allemana on guitar, Jack Zara on bass and Michael Raynor on drums, sounds great, with the tightness born from years of playing together.
The last 2 cuts are from a different venue, with a different band. Cut 7 is a slow blues, a Freeman original called Blues for Billie, with Jason Moran on piano, Mark Helias on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. The final cut is a duo between Freeman and Moran, on the beautiful Duke Ellington tune, I Like The Sunrise.
The thing that really struck me about Freeman on this CD is his versatility of tone.Read more ›
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