What would 3 star tenor saxophonists sound like on the same record? A Chicago label wondered the same thing
CHICAGO — If its title didn’t already tip you off, “Tenor Time” — out on jazz label AFAR Music this Friday — declares what it’s all about from the very first track. An uptempo rhythm section, flavored with sly chromaticism by pianist and AFAR founder and owner Richard D. Johnson, plugs along before not one, not two, but three tenor saxophonists punch to the fore: Geof Bradfield, Scott Burns and John “Wojo” Wojciechowski.
Scarcely does one see multiple tenors in the same configuration. For their decades of overlap in a city with a much-hailed tenor tradition, Bradfield, Burns
