Lewis, Mark
Audio Daddio, 2021, CD
Instrument: Saxophone
Issue: 27.2
Jazz Ruler Type: Bebop
Performance: 4
Sound: 4
Score: 79
O’s Notes: Seattle-area native, saxophonist/flutist and composer Mark Lewis has come full circle now residing home and anxious to get back to regular live performances. Back in the 1980s when Mark lived in The Netherlands, he assembled a Dutch Quartet with William Kühne (p), James Long (b) and Frans van Grinsven (d). Naked Animals was recorded live over 30 years ago, one of Lewis’s last recordings based in Rotterdam! It is only now being released and it is still fresh. There’s an excellent bass solo on the soft, swinging ballad “A Dance with Monique”. We also enjoyed the upbeat title track. But this album is a shared experience vs. showboating and a treasure from the time.
Publicist: Terri Hinte