Today Joe Lovano is one of the great and important saxophonists of our time. He moves between tradition and freedom. On this double he can be admired with two different quartets during performances in the famous jazz club The Village Vanguard. On March 12, 1994, he played there with trumpet / fl³gelhorn player Tom Harrell, bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Billy Hart. On January 20 and 22, 1995, he
… played with pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Lewis Nash. They played with the first quartet including "Fort Worth", "Uprising" and "Song and dance", by Tom Harrell "Sail away" and the standard "I can't get started". Together with the second quartet he played six other songs besides his own "Sounds of joy", including "Lonnie's lament" (John Coltrane), "Little Willie weeps" (Miles Davis) and "Duke Ellington's sound of love" (Charles Mingus). In the latter quartet it is clear that swing and bebop predominate, with the soloing being emphasized. In the piano-free quartet, dialogue predominates and there is more room for more complicated improvisations.more
