Cheek, Chris
Analog Tone Factory, 2025, CD
Instrument: Saxophone
Issue: 31.2
Jazz Ruler Type: Fusion
Performance: 3
Sound: 3
Score: 73
O’s Notes: Jazz saxophonist Chris Creek leads a quartet with Bill Frisell (g), Tony Scherr (b), and Rudy Royston (d). They play several tunes with relaxed melodies like “Smoke Rings”, “On A Clear Day”, and “From Me To You”. The music is more a story of sadness, reflecting the lost battles by the Iroquois tribe, the Keepers Of The Eastern Door, the East Coast of the USA during colonization. Justice doesn’t always prevail and perhaps we should have learned from the natives how to best live in harmony with the Earth.
Publicist: D. L. Media