TRIO REIN DE GRAAFF & GARY SMULYAN

‘Smulyan puts the “tone” back in baritone’, is what DownBeat wrote and indeed, that powerful, expressive sound will not be lightly forgotten. He anchored many saxophone sections in big bands like The Young Thundering Herd of Woody Herman and the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and he worked as a super sideman for Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Ray Charles and many, many others. According to Jazz Times Magazine this is what we can expect from him as a solo artist: ‘Non-stop, on the edge saxophone enthusiasm.’