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Jeff Newell
 
Young alto saxophonist who moved to New York in 1994. When home, he fronts the New Trad Octet, a Mardi Gras year-round Crescent City-style eight-piece. He's not as flashy as we've come to expect from star jazz reedmen, but -- as Chicago Reader jazz critic Neil Tesser says -- "Newell's power comes from deep under the surface, ahcnoring his somewhat introspective solos, which ebb and flow in calm precision and crest in brief, glassy waves."

His Quartet has released a new CD. Downbeat Magazine says "Newell has found his voice." The Chicago Reader calls it "Genuinely exciting... intellectually intriguing."

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