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| 1. | Breakthrough
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| 2. | Damien's Dance
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| 3. | Invitation
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| 4. | Latin Fever
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| 5. | Detour Ahead
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| 6. | Just in the "Newk" of Time
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| 7. | Dialogue
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| 8. | A Walk in the Park
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| 9. | Red Clay
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| 10. | One Last Time
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Jazz
Andrew Lippman - Trombone
Angel Luis Figueroa - Percussion
Billy Kerr - Flute, Sax (Alto)
Glenn Nishida - Engineer
Ian Robbins - Guitar
Jeff Jarvis - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Larry Andrew Williams - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
The ten-musician outfit that Bruce Eskovitz bills as the Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra on Invitation is an example of what Phil Woods would call a "little big band." In other words, the Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra is a medium-sized unit; ten is larger than a small group but is smaller than an actual big band or a full-fledged orchestra. Over the years, medium-sized units have made valuable contributions to jazz; the nonet that Miles Davis led on his historic Birth of the Cool sessions of 1949 and 1950 was a medium-sized unit, as were some of Charles Mingus' best bands. And a medium-sized format clearly serves Eskovitz well on this self-produced 2007 session, which paints a consistently attractive picture of his talents as a bandleader/arranger. Small-group recordings like 1993's One for Newk on Koch Jazz showed Eskovitz to be a skillful saxophonist, but on Invitation, he wears the bandleader/arranger hat as skillfully as he wears the soloist hat (Eskovitz is heard on both tenor and soprano sax, playing a little alto flute as well). Thankfully, his arranging doesn't get in the way of his improvising; Eskovitz gives himself plenty of room to blow on Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay," Bronislaw Kaper's "Invitation," and Herb Ellis' "Detour Ahead," as well as original compositions, which range from the Afro-Cuban-flavored "Latin Fever" to the mellifluous "Breakthrough" to the Sonny Rollins-inspired "Just in the Newk of Time." And that is another hat that Eskovitz wears proficiently on this 60-minute CD: the composer hat. From saxophonist to bandleader/arranger to composer, Eskovitz is in excellent form throughout Invitation.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Bruce Eskovitz
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: Feb 02, 1955 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop
After a couple of crossover records, Bruce Eskovitz really stretched out on his Koch Jazz release (One for Newk) as he paid tribute to Sonny Rollins. One selection ("Tenor Madness") features him holding his own with the great Ernie Watts. Eskovitz started playing tenor when he was 11 and at age 20 was composing music for Merv Griffin's television show. He has mostly worked as a studio musician and a jazz educator, but appears regularly in Los Angeles area clubs.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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