Hi jazzbos, I've remained on the sidelines during discussions of "underrated" musicians for a couple of reasons. I'm unclear what constitutes being underrated. Is it based on record sales, jazz polls won, number of times they made the cover of Time magazine, or anyone's individual perspective? And is it their musicianship, how many groups they've lead, how many compositions they've written which were then covered by others, or how much their technic influenced other players? Curious minds want to know. ;^)
However I now come out onto the playing field, mainly because of a concert experience last evening here in San Diego. The Mingus Dynasty performed a tribute to the "Tijuana Moods" album. BTW, they also performed the night before in Tijuana and I heard it was an over-flow crowd success.
Anyway, frog may know some or all of the musicians since they are based in NYC. And they all have recording experience other than with Mingus Dynasty, so others of you may know some of them too. But they were all unknown to me. The band:
Wayne Escoffery - tenor sax
Brandon Wright - alto sax
Alex Sipiagin - trumpet
Frank Ku-umba Lacy - trombone
Theo Hill - piano
Boris Kozlov - bass
Adam Cruz - drums
I found the individual musicians to be either very good or outstanding. Yet, as stated, I'm not familiar with any of them. So does that suggest any or all are underrated? I'm not sure.
However I now come out onto the playing field, mainly because of a concert experience last evening here in San Diego. The Mingus Dynasty performed a tribute to the "Tijuana Moods" album. BTW, they also performed the night before in Tijuana and I heard it was an over-flow crowd success.
Anyway, frog may know some or all of the musicians since they are based in NYC. And they all have recording experience other than with Mingus Dynasty, so others of you may know some of them too. But they were all unknown to me. The band:
Wayne Escoffery - tenor sax
Brandon Wright - alto sax
Alex Sipiagin - trumpet
Frank Ku-umba Lacy - trombone
Theo Hill - piano
Boris Kozlov - bass
Adam Cruz - drums
I found the individual musicians to be either very good or outstanding. Yet, as stated, I'm not familiar with any of them. So does that suggest any or all are underrated? I'm not sure.