Eddie Johnson - Love You MadlyChicago tenor sax great Eddie Johnson passed away on April 7, 2010 at the age of 89. This 1999 session was recorded at the tail end of his last active period in a long professional career that went back to the 40's. Eddie led the Jazz Masters for six years at Alexander's Steakhouse on Chicago's south side so the band was ready for the date. With Chicago piano legend John Young, bassist Eddie de Haas and drummer George Hughes. Jazz Masters trumpeter

lengthier songs

Robert Wagner

a busted truck and memories of Ryan (Nadia Bjorlin)

" the band's ultimate sense of home is both fluid and utterly unshakeable

The studio at 122 West Loveland Avenue was not an unfamiliar space for Steve Okonski

has fantastic characters

His Is Christmas

Pablo finds that a vintage sweater left behind comes attached with a certain mischievous spirit

Shim Sham Shammy

the opera concerns a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who finds the door of his cell unlocked and creeps out under the cover of darkness to the garden beyond

transcendent album more reminiscent of John Lennon or Elliott Smith than anything coming out of Nashville these days

But in the roundness of tone and evenness in quality throughout the range of the instrument produced by Collins lies the lasting attraction of a compelling musical discourse that has ensured Crusell's recent widespread revival way beyond the world of the clarinet and it's devotees