Saxophone Summit February 1, 2011

When some of the greatest jazz saxophonists of their generation - Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano - first assembled in the mid-1990s as Saxophone Summit, their mission was to explore the experimental avenues paved by jazz icon John Coltrane a few decades earlier. The debut album, 'Gathering of Spirits,' was called "ridiculously good," (Jazz Times) and said to invoke, "the collective vision and apocalyptic energies of John Coltrane's 1960s meetings with Eric Dolphy and Pharoah Sanders." (Amazon.com) After the untimely the death of Michael Brecker in 2007, Saxophone Summit reconvened with the addition of saxophonist Ravi Coltrane - heir to the elder Coltrane's legacy - to step in and fill the void created by Brecker's passing.