Watch Your Step

RELEASE
1985
LABEL
Antilles
GENRES
Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz

Album Review

The second release (following an obscure set for Osmosis in 1983) by this underrated saxophone ensemble has one original apiece from three of the players (altoist Ed Jackson, tenor saxophonist Rich Rothenberg and baritonist Jim Hartog) and two from the group's best-known player, altoist Bobby Watson. The Twenty-Ninth Street Sax Quartet, on this album from Watson's small label New Note, offers an alternative to the freer a cappella sax playing of the World Saxophone Quartet and Rova but is also adventurous in its own way. Highlights include the spirited "K.C.Q.," "Watch Your Step" (which is a good feature for all of the players) and the somewhat scary "Hotel de Funk."
Scott Yanow, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. T.P.T.
  2. Watch Your Step
  3. K.C.Q.
  4. Hotel de Funk
  5. Lafiya