Andrew ShieldsFeb 6
The Vertigo Trombone Quartet, Bird’s Eye Jazz Club, 5 February 2026. #111Words #BirdsEyeBasel #Basel #Jazz #Music #LiveMusic #VertigoTromboneQuartet #BernhardBamert #AndreasTschopp #NilsWogram #JanSchreiner #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #GreatAmericanMusicHall #Saxofour #TinguelyMuseum https://111-words.ghost.io/the-vertigo-trombone-quartet-birds-eye-jazz-club-5-february-2026/
The Vertigo Trombone Quartet, Bird’s Eye Jazz Club, 5 February 2026

Two central concerts in my early listening to jazz were by the World Saxophone Quartet at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1984 and 1985. And in 2024, I saw the Austrian saxophone quartet Saxofour at the Tinguely Museum in Basel. Last night, though, I saw the

111 Words
Andi ChorleyOct 21

Point of No Return is the debut album by the jazz group the World Saxophone Quartet released on the Moers Music label in 1977.

The album features a live performance by alto saxophonists Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake, tenor saxophonist David Murray and baritone saxophonist Hamiett Bluiett. It was recorded at the 6th International New Jazz Festival in Moers in June 1977.

Writer Gary Giddins commented: "little on... Point of No Return suggested serious absorption in exploring the potential of a renegade sax section (Murray's hurly-burly 'Scared Sheetless' pointedly fills most of the play time), and that little bit was by Hemphill, who always preferred group conception to workaday nightly improvisation." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkolqx_-hwo&list=RDJkolqx_-hwo&start_radio=1

#WorldSaxophoneQuartet #MoersMusic #JuliusHemphill #OliverLake #DavidMurray #HamiettBluiett #Jazz #Saxophones #Music #FreeJazz

PieterSep 15, 2024

#WorldSaxophoneQuartet – Yes We Can cd on #Jazzwerkstatt 2010

http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lTjJVTxgq-_5H-0Lv35gPzlmwswpS7Sdo

Andrew ShieldsMay 5, 2024
Saxofour at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, 4 May 2024 (and memories of the World Saxophone Quartet in San Franscisco in the 1980s). #111Words #Jazz #Music #Saxofour #TinguelyMuseum #Basel #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #SanFrancisco #GreatAmericanMusicHall https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/05/saxofour-at-tinguely-museum-in-basel-4.html
Saxofour at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, 4 May 2024 (and memories of the World Saxophone Quartet in San Franscisco in the 1980s)

In the mid-1980s, I heard two incredibly memorable performances by the World Saxophone Quartet at the Great American Music Hall in San Franc...

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World Saxophone Quartet:
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#WorldSaxophoneQuartet

https://open.spotify.com/track/0JZ3Ag0UZ3lVSGgnJDvuwo

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Freddie Freeloader

World Saxophone Quartet, Jack DeJohnette · Song · 1998

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Igor OlestraSep 19, 2023
If the Fantastic Four was just four of The Thing, and they all played sax. Heavy. Gonna clobber you with cosmic rays. #jazz #saxophone #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #BlackSaint #JuliusHemphill #OliverLake #DavidMurray #HamiettBluiett
https://youtu.be/LAvzwU002YA
The World Saxophone Quartet – Steppin' With The World Saxophone Quartet

YouTube
Show threadAndrew ShieldsFeb 18, 2023

And now I’ve remembered Murray at World Saxophone Quartet concerts, which I wrote about here: https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/07/world-saxophone-quartet-in-san.html

#Jazz #Music #DavidMurray #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #GreatAmericanMusicHall

World Saxophone Quartet in San Francisco in the mid-eighties

Twice in the mid-eighties, I went to see the World Saxophone Quartet at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco: Hamiet Bluiett, Juli...

Andrew ShieldsFeb 17, 2023
The joy of listening to David Murray. #111Words #DavidMurray #Jazz #Music #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #JackDeJohnette #AkiTakase https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-joy-of-listening-to-david-murray.html
The joy of listening to David Murray

One of my favorite musicians when I first discovered jazz in the 1980s was tenor saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and compo...