Spiritual Jazz From Billy Harper

Billy Harper – Priestess
Billy Harper – Calvary
Billy Harper – Illumination (excerpt)

A little earlier I reviewed the Spiritual Jazz collection on this blog and this record by saxophonist Billy Harper definitely exemplifies that style of music.  Harper is one of my favorite living saxophone players, with an extremely full and warm tone, in a post-Coltrane style while also marking out his own territory as a soloist for some 40 years now, beginning most prominently with Max Roach. (more…)