Pacific Northwest Trio, Boston Tenor
Sep. 23: George Garzone and the Jerry Steinhilber Trio at Tyrant Studios
Saxophonist George Garzone played two Infidels Jazz shows at Tyrant Studios on Tuesday, September 23rd. Joining him was the trio of drummer-bandleader Jerry Steinhilber with tenor saxophonist Josh Cook and bassist King Dahl. I attended the early show that started at 7:00 PM; both shows sold out of advance tickets.
A recording engineer sat at the piano and set up an iMac on its closed top. The Boston-based Garzone bantered softly in his Italian-American accent, started right on time, and ended crisply a bit early as he picked up the signature Tyrant skull in communion with our applause.
I think of Garzone as the ultimate Berklee College of Music man. He attended the school himself and is synonymous with its jazz faculty. His name was one of the first ones I remember hearing from my friends who went there, and I'm sure it's the same going back through Steinhilber's generation, too.
Garzone celebrated his 75th birthday on the day of this show, which was also John Coltrane's 99th birth anniversary (we'll save this kind of thing for next year). He wore a Trane T-shirt under his unbuttoned shirt. He and Cook started both on tenor saxophones, playing in free-time unison on an original, "A Fox in the Woods". In keeping with the show theme of George Garzone plays John Coltrane on the occasion of their birthdays, it sounded like the relentless spiritual churn of mid-60s Trane.
