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Doug Webb “Triple Play” gets covered by Dusted in Exile….
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Doug Webb – Triple Play (Positone)
In the imaginary contest between coasts, Pacific will always register a distant second to Atlantic when it comes to jazz supremacy. Even during the Fifties at the height of West Coast Cool movement, New York City still held a lock as the music’s epicenter. Left coaster Doug Webb has dealt with this disparity for mu ...Read More
Burning Ambulance reviews the Doug Webb’s new CD…
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Tenor saxophonist Doug Webb has been playing professionally on the West Coast for over 30 years, and has appeared on over 500 recordings. In addition to gigging and performing as a sideman on over 150 jazz albums, he regularly records music for TV and movies—most notably, he provides the saxophone “voice” of Lisa Simpson.
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Brent Black gives 5 Stars to Doug Webb “Triple Play”…
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An old school blowing session that can touch your heart and set you’re hair on fire at the same time!
I love a review that can write itself. Sure, one can take the more theoretical approach to looking at this release but I have yet to meet a person that bought a release based on meter. Doug Webb is joined with tenor titans Joel Frahm and Walt W ...Read More
Britt Robson writes up Doug Webb “Another Scene” for eMusic….
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The veteran saxophonist’s best album to date
Doug Webb is a veteran L.A. session saxophonist who ventured to New York (hence the title) to assemble a superb quartet and record his best album to date. Most of the essential material here is sparkling, rollicking hard bop in the classic mode: Webb and pianist Peter Zak playing with a buoyant, blues-based fervor while drummer Ru ...Read More
Lucid Culture takes Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Doug Webb‘s new album Another Scene ranks among the best from Posi-Tone, including Jared Gold’s organ albums, the Captain Black Big Band album and Ralph Bowen’s awesome Power Play from a couple of years ago. This one puts the LA tenor saxophonist out in front of a New York rhythm section with energy to match – you want intensity? You got it. Bill Fris ...Read More
The Jazz Page covers Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Veteran saxman Doug Webb has a big-time jazz saxophone voice, in league with some of the great purveyors of the instrument. This sound is on full display on his latest effort Another Scene. Webb can burn hard on a swing tune or find the tenderest approach on a ballad. He knows his stuff and he’s joined by a collection of musicians who know theirs as well. Joining Webb on the pro ...Read More
Audiophile Audition covers Doug Webb “Another scene”…
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Doug Webb – Another Scene – Posi-Tone PR 8115, 61:56 [10/22/13] ****:
(Doug Webb – tenor sax; Peter Zak – piano; Dwayne Burno – bass; Rudy Royston – drums)
West Coast-based saxophonist Doug Webb continues to impress. For his fourth CD on the Posi-Tone label, Webb has the support of an East Coast rhythm section to match his intensity and creativity. Doug is based in the Los A ...Read More
Music and More reviews Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Saxophonist Doug Webb grew up in California before moving east to study at Berklee. He is in great demand as a sideman and a film score composer, and this album presents him leading a band with Peter Zak on piano, Dwayne Bruno on bass and Rudy Royston on drums. This is a well played and accessible modern mainstream jazz album that takes its inspiration from the lik ...Read More
Midwest Record reviews Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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DOUG WEBB/Another Scene: Sax man Webb puts LA in his rear view mirror for a while and kicks it big apple style. Don’t worry, he didn’t leave any of his hard driving playing in his rear view mirror. Too driving a set for hipsters, this is for real jazzbos that want to dig the groove that doesn’t quit. Solid stuff from a canon that keeps growing in the righ ...Read More
Brent Black on Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Doug Webb may well be the best unknown saxophonist in America.
Doug Webb has released three critically acclaimed recordings on the Posi-Tone label. So who is Doug Webb? Having played and recorded with such luminaries as Stanley Clarke, Rod Stewart, and Pancho Sanchez there is no questioning Webb’s versatility. Small screen work for Webb includes such smash television ...Read More