# CD review: Houston Person – Reminiscing At Rudy’s 2022: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2022/11/20/cd-review-houston-person-reminiscing-at-rudys-2022-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2022-11-20T00:04:26+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Tenor saxophonist Houston Person’s playing has a lot in common with a perfectly
brewed cup of coffee: both are bold, satisfying, smooth, eye-opening and addictive
once experienced.**

Whether it be during smouldering blues-tinged numbers (“Please Send Me Someone to
Love”), up-tempo takes on old favorites (“At Long Last Love,” “Moon River”), or 
steamy, sultry, late-night ballads (“Put Your Head on My Shoulder”), Person never
fails to deliver a performance where expressivity is the order of the day. The band
is made up of a hand-picked group from Person’s cadre of regular colleagues with
guitar great Russell Malone adding his imaginative voicings and swinging rhythms
to the mix.

The album’s title is an homage to Houston’s engineer of choice, the legendary Rudy
Van Gelder. Person’s very first recording as a leader, the 1967 ‘Underground Soul!’,
was done at Rudy’s fabled Englewood Cliffs studio and they continued their friendship
and working relationship until Van Gelder’s passing in 2016. But this is a not a
backward-looking memorial album. That is not Person’s style. If you go by his busy
performance schedule and his extensive discography, Houston Person is, like his 
fans, always looking forward to his next gig.

01. At Long Last Love 4:57
 02. Again 6:50 03. Moon River 4:48 04. Put Your Head
on My Shoulder 5:27 05. Why Did I Choose You 4:12 06. Nothing Ever Changes My Love
for You 4:17 07. My Romance 6:15 08. I’ll Let You Know 7:42 09. Please Send Me Someone
to Love 7:01 10. Reminiscing at Rudy’s 5:50

**Houston Person (tenor saxophone)**
 **Russell Malone (guitar)** **Larry Fuller(
piano)** **Matthew Parrish (bass)** **Lewis Nash (drums, vocal #6)**

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