Artist:Saxophone Summit
Song:Our Daily Bread
Album:Seraphic Lignt
Telarc Records put Saxophone Summit together as a John Coltrane tribute. The idea was to assemble four of the best sax players in jazz. When Saxophone Summit first played in Japan in 1997, the band was Joshua Redman, Mike Brecker, Dave Liebman and George Garzone filling in for Joe Lovano who had to cancel at the last minute. After a week long engagement at Birdland in New York City, there was a lot of demand for Saxophone Summit. And Telarc wanted an album. But these guys are so busy, it's difficult to assemble them. Finally they toured Europe and recorded the 2004 album Gathering of Spirits. By this time the band was Lovano, Leibman and Brecker. After Brecker's 2007 death, Lovano decided to keep Saxophone Summit together. For the 2008 album Seraphic Light, John Coltrane's son Ravi Coltrane was brought in which is appropriate because the group is a tribute to Coltrane. Lovano wrote Our Daily Bread. But as he said in the EPK, the song is based on Coltrane's Dear Lord. Lovano plays tenor sax. Coltrane plays soprano sax. Leibman plays flute. Other musicians are Phil Markowitz on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and Billy Hart on drums. The album is dedicated to Mike Brecker. His trumpeter brother Randy Brecker guests on a couple of tracks. Saxophone Summit has since recorded two albums. The 2019 album Street Talk is on Enja Records with Greg Osby replacing Coltrane. Here's the EPK for the Saxophone Summit album Seraphic Light. Lovano talks about how he wrote Our Daily Bread.
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