# George Garzone has the credentials for a big following … Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/09/23/george-garzone-has-the-credentials-for-a-big-following-video/
- Published: 2018-09-23T00:04:42+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**23.09. – Happy Birthday !!! Since he looks like 1980s-vintage George C Scott, 
exudes laid-back Italian‑American charm and sounds like at least three saxophone
players rolled into one, the musician and educator George Garzone has the credentials
for a big following.**

Yet he is nowhere near as well known as many of the younger saxophonists – including
Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis and Mark Turner – who have been his pupils over
the years, since he began teaching jazz at Berklee College, in Boston, in the 1970s.
The 62-year-old maestro’s single London appearance was a hot date, therefore, even
if he was obliged to wing it on an unrehearsed first meeting with World Service 
Project’s skilful young bassist, Conor Chaplin, and drummer, Dave Hamblett.

Garzone, playing tenor sax, was also partnered by altoist Carlo Conti, whose probing,
angular interrogations of the harmonies contrasted with the older man’s weightier
sound and attack. Garzone was astonishing from the off, not least because he sounded
both impetuous and flawlessly secure; he seemed to have many more choices, regardless
of tempo, than most song-based improvisers do. He also presented several saxophone
guises: initially light and Lee Konitz-like in the opening I Remember You, then 
gutturally rumbling in an atonal space – somewhere between John Coltrane and Evan
Parker – and Sonny Rollins-like in his terse reminders of the tune. In a mixed-tempo
Latin swing, Garzone amiably pushed the initially reserved Chaplin and Hamblett 
with raw, barging phrases that drove up their intensity and confidence. A beautiful
two-sax arrangement of Coltrane’s Naima inspired a bagpipe-like quiver from Conti,
and Garzone hit the low accents in the following fast blues with such resounding
thumps, it was hard to tell his contributions from those of the now-animated Hamblett.
A fuller UK residency for this master of post-bop saxophone is long overdue.

Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972
that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, that performs regularly
in the Boston area and has toured Portugal. The group has released three albums.
A veteran jazzman, Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. He began on the tenor
when he was six, played in a family band and attended music school in Boston. In
addition Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen
Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z and
John Patitucci among others.

Garzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator, currently teaching at the
Berklee College of Music. He has also previously taught at New England Conservatory,
Longy School of Music, New York University, Manhattan School of Music, Northeastern
University and the New School University. He has pioneered the triadic chromatic
approach and students of his have included Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Teadross
Avery, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates and Danilo Perez, 
to name a few.

In 1995 he recorded a fine tribute to Stan Getz on NYC called Alone; Four’s and 
Two’s followed a year later with compatriot Joe Lovano which earned him four stars
in Downbeat magazine, and in 1999 Garzone returned with Moodiology. Fringe in New
York was released in summer 2000. He is a member of the Grammy-winning Joe Lovano
Nonet, and performed and recorded with this group at the Village Vanguard in September
2002. George is endorsed by Rico Reeds, JodyJazz mouthpieces and R. S. Berkeley 
musical instruments.

![Картинки по запросу George Garzone](https://i0.wp.com/chestertownspy.
org/files/2017/03/Lagana-Garzone-featured-image.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)

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