Rock
December, 1996
The B Sharp Jazz Quartet has brought new life to the basic sax-and-rhythm format with a breakthrough album, Searching for the One (MAMA Foundation). This Los Angeles band thrives on the drumming of Herb Graham Jr. and the nononsense saxophone work of Randall Willis. Here they blend hip-hop into the progressive mainstream, with dynamic results.Beasts of Scotland (Honest/Linn) is richly varied. The Scottish saxist Tommy Smith used poems to inspire his compositions for sextet. Smith's artful writin...
