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| Dave LeFebvre (2011) | |
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| Bay Area-born, -bred and -based saxophonist and composer Dave LeFebvre has been performing throughout California, Europe and Japan for the last quarter century.
He's played in the Don Ellis Orchestra and the Don Piestrup Big Band, and with Joe Williams, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Temptations, and the Four Tops. And he's done a long round of jazz festivals, including Concord, Berkeley, Napa Valley, and San Jose, and headlined at the Fête de la Musique in Auxerre, France. As an educator, Dave has taught at UC Berkeley, at Cal State Maritime College, and at the San Jose Jazz Camp, among others. As a writer, he's prolific, having composed and arranged over one hundred original compositions for big band and, even more impressive, a couple of hundred more for small groups. Straight-ahead or funk or fusion, it matters not: Dave's playing is unfailingly excellent, be it on tenor saxophone, or another saxophone (soprano or alto), or other reed (clarinet), or woodwind (flute, piccolo), or even wind synthesizer. What's more, Dave also plays the EWI, and, like Michael Brecker but unlike so many others, he plays it very well indeed. His new recording, "From Soul to Soul", is dedicated to Michael. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | Time Out | Take Five | Columbia |
| # 2 | John Coltrane | Blue Train | Moment's Notice | Blue Note |
| # 3 | The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra | The Complete Solid State Recordings of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra | Tiptoe | Mosaic |
| # 4 | Don Ellis | Electric Bath | Indian Lady | Crescendo |
| # 5 | Claus Ogerman featuring Michael Brecker | Cityscape | In the Presence and Absence of Each Other, Part 1 | Warner Bros |
| # 6 | Weather Report | Heavy Weather | Palladium | Columbia |
| # 7 | Steps Ahead | Magnetic | In a Sentimental Mood | Elektra |
| Book | Joseph Viola, "Technique of the Saxophone", or Ray Bradbury | |||
| Luxury Item | "I don't own an iPad, but I'd like to take one." | |||
| Tim Garland
26 Apr Ben Goldberg 01 Mar Lua Hadar 08 Mar | Molly Holm
19 Apr Remy Le Boeuf 15 Mar Stephanie Nakasian 18 Jan | Marlena Shaw
29 Mar Ben Sidran 12 Apr |