CORY WEEDS RECASTS HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS FOR HAMMOND ORGAN QUARTET ON HIP TO BE SQUARE — PLAYS HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS (BOOP BOP BING BASH!) THE CANADIAN SAXOPHONIST, PRODUCER AND LABEL FOUNDER JOINS ORGANIST AND ARRANGER CHRIS HAZELTON, GUITARIST DAVID ROURKE AND DRUMMER RUDY PETSCHAUER THE 13-TRACK ALBUM PAIRS SIX HUEY LEWIS … Read More
Consummate Tenor Saxophonist Cory Weeds Announces the Release of Home Cookin, out November 10, 2023 via Cellar Music Group, Featuring his Masterful Ensemble, the Little Big Band “What Weeds wanted, as noted above, was a mid-sized unit that would generate as much range and power as a full-sized orchestra. Mission accomplished. More than that, Weeds … Read More
What’s News column – The Louis Armstrong House Museum announces 2022 Artist-in-Residence program recipients – Page 5 Feature by Pierre Giroux – Cellar Music Group’s ‘Reel to Real’ includes Live at Room at the Top (Pepper Adams) – Page 11 Review by Ori Dagan – Sheila Jordan – Live at Mezzrow – Page 17 Review … Read More
The 70th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll is out now, highlighting several albums and artists repped from May 2021-April 2022 at Lydia Liebman Promotions. See the full list below! Rising Star Large Ensemble 1. Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band Rising Star Soprano Sax 1. Roxy Coss Jazz Artist of the Year 17. Dave Liebman Jazz Album … Read More
New York City Jazz Record, June 2022 New York at Night article by Tom Greenland – Samara Joy – Page 4 New York at Night article by Tom Greenland – Catherine Russell – Page 4 Review by Tom Greenland – Cory Weeds – What Is There To Say? – Page 16 Review by Dan Bilawsky … Read More
by Scott Yanow, Jazziz “What Is There To Say? features Weeds with strings. Phil Dwyer, who is also quite a skilled tenor saxophonist, is heard on piano and provides the arrangements for the 13 strings. Tempos range from slow ballads to medium pace, and repertoire consists of obscurities, including Duke Pearson’s “The Phantom,” which is … Read More
by CBC Music Staff “From the lush, string-laden opening bars of Cory Weed’s What is There to Say?, you know you’re in for something special. The Vancouver saxophonist and impresario’s 18th album as a leader coincides with the 20th anniversary of his prolific Cellar Jazz label (which grew out of his much-missed Vancouver jazz club of … Read More
by Pierre Giroux, All About Jazz “Tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds continues to search for new ways to explore and expand his personal musical horizons. In the release What Is There To Say?, Weeds looks to the expression “everything old is new again” and delivers an album backed by a fulsome string section reminiscent of sessions that both Charlie Parker and Bobby … Read More
by Jim Hynes, Making A Scene “Throughout, there is such warmth and expressiveness in Weeds’ flawless lyricism, one can almost see him smiling at the results, while nodding to Dwyer that the project succeeded just as they had envisioned it.” Read the full review here.
By Jeff Krow, Audiophile Audition Whenever I hear about a new “saxophone with strings” jazz release, I am excited and look forward to hearing the release. There has always been an intrigue about the saxophone and strings combination. It goes back to the iconic Charlie Parker and strings album from the 1950s. Parker had turned … Read More
