Jazz Artist Of The Year
March, 2009
Even though 2009's Jazz Artist of the Year is celebrated as one of the form's premier alto sax players, Greg Osby has never rested on his laurels. He's always searching for something different and new. From fronting his stripped-down downtown trio and playing with the M-Base Collective back in the mid-1980s to jamming onstage with the Dead, Osby is a ceaseless innovator. Now, at the age of 48, he is no longer the young lion he was during all those late nights at Bradley's. But that's okay: &...
