Crusader | by Chris Hovan Hovan at the Helm: Your Personal Guide To The New American City This past year provided us with an immense amount of new music, the majority of it coming in at an unusually high caliber. For the first time since I began compiling my yearly...
Downbeat Magazine | By Zan Stewart Song For My Mother Criss Cross 1127 Jim Snidero San Juan Red 123265 Snidero and Weiskopf are members of that mid-30s demographic of journeymen N.Y.C.-based players who, despite a good deal of activity and renown, remain...
Durham Morning Herald | R.C. Smith, Jazz A number of last year’s “new names” in jazz from this column and some this column missed, are deserving of recognition now as emerging stars, poised at the point of liftoff of just up. Among those with new...
Jazziz Magazine The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra has featured a young saxophonist who, based on his debut as leader, sounds like he’ll be a player to be reckoned with. Walt Weiskopf’s Exact Science (Iris Records, P.O. Box 422, Port Washington, New York...
Syracuse New Times | By J.T. Hall ***** Excellent **** Very Good *** Just OK ** So So * Awful (***** Excellent) Walt Weiskopf, Exact Science (Iris) With this impressive debut, Weiskopf will join Tim Berne as one of upstate New York’s saxophone iconoclasts....
JazzTimes CD & Record Reviews | By Tom Jacobsen Walt Weiskopf Exact Science Iris Records ICD-1002 (51:07) Walt Weiskopf, tenor saxophone; Joel Weiskopf, piano; Jay Anderson, bass; Jeff Hirshfield, drums. Telltale; Jay-Walking; About You; Mr. Goldyadkin; Intuition;...
