Downtown Sounds is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart.

Background

This was Stewart's first album as leader.

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Music and recording

The album was recorded on December 27, 1992, in New York City. Stewart was 21 at the time.

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Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "tough-tender hard bop, played with intelligence and resolutely unsurprising."

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Track listing

"Audobahn" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:20

"Smada" (Billy Strayhorn) – 7:53

"Daydream" (Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, John La Touche) – 7:36

"From This Moment On" (Cole Porter) – 7:00

"A Bee Has Two Brains" (Johnny Ellis) – 8:03

"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules Lemare) – 8:06

"Intimacy of the Blues" (Strayhorn) – 7:48

"Ko-Ko" (Charlie Parker) – 8:08

Personnel

Grant Stewart – tenor sax

Joe Magnarelli – trumpet

Brad Mehldau – piano

Peter Washington – bass

Kenny Washington – drums

References

1994 albums

Grant Stewart albums

Criss Cross Jazz albums