CD Review/Jimmy Greene/Mission Statement/SSC4608

The erudite yet singular sax sound of a jazzman on a mission!! A mission indeed, & Jimmy Greene has composed a spate of originals that we will have to reckon with as the jazz idiom unfolds now and in years to come.

Greene delivers his jazz in an educated, intellectual, and in certainly a literate and learned style. Jimmy's talents are realized in a passionate, albeit a contemporary style.............sometimes tender...............never brutal.................exuding a extraordinarily caressing tone...............handling both his melody and harmony as if to savour and consume. What a gift!!  Greene's music is functional and might I suggest that Jimmy's music ''is for the people.'' Jimmy's phrasing and melodic articulation plus his viable pliant timbre makes us his listeners aware not of the sax's limitations in the jazz, (if there are any).....but rather its real communicative strength.