High Plains - Stephen Martin - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

High Plains is an album by Stephen Martin, released in 2022. The album is a jazz CD.

Full of inspired, fiery conviction, saxophonist Stephen Martin channels the Kansas City jazz ecosystem that nurtured his professional and musical development on High Plains, his second album as a leader. Teaming with the virtuosic vibraphonist/pianist Peter Schlamb, bassist Ben Leifer and drummer David Hawkins, Martin tears through the Coltrane-inspired original, "The Void," and Frank Foster's "Simone," while Joe Henderson's "Punjab" lopes and swings conversationally. The classic "Easy Living" delivers a ballad’s restraint while seeming ready to unfold and burst at any moment. With two of his mentors close at hand - saxophonists Bobby Watson & Matt Otto as featured soloists, with Otto also producing the session - the atmosphere is loose, rollicking and familial, reflecting the shared sense of dialect, rhythm and purpose.

Composers: Matt Otto, Joe Henderson, Stephen Martin, Benny Golson, Ralph Rainger, Frank Foster and Ben Leifer.

Label: Oa2 Records | Origin: Holland