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Logan Richardson / About This Artist

Artist Details and Stats:

Hometown: Paris, FR

Label: Concord Jazz * Concord Music Group

Management: Jimmy Zane

Website: brainchildworld.com

Sounds Like: Logan Richardson, Radiohead, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Greg Osby

Genre: Jazz

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Biography:

New York City based saxophonist and composer Logan C. Richardson is a fresh new voice on the alto saxophone. His full, broad sound, wide leaps, along side of a dense harmonic approach are just the beginning of a description of Logan’s unique sound. Logan’s compositions encompass a whirlwind of different sounds and textures, pulling from various styles traditional and
modern.

Press:

"Step by step, Richardson works around the edges, showing everything you can do with an alto sax except sit on it."
Tom Hull - The Village Voice NYC

"Logan possesses a vocal-like flexibility and dexterity unlike any alto saxophonist that I’ve witnessed in an alarmingly long time."
Greg Osby - Saxophonist/Composer

"Mr. Richardson, 29, is given to a gleaming, aerodynamic brand of post-bop, intricate but untroubled in its propulsion"
Nate Chinen - The New York Times

"Richardson is a force to be reckoned with who will undoubtedly emerge as a leading voice in the coming years."
John Vincent Barron - jazzreview.com

“‘Logan Richardson knows about that hard-to-describe entity known as the “jazz tradition”. ”
Ted Panken - Downbeat Magazine August 2009

"Logan Richardson’s saxophone playing is incisive, multi-dimensional and remarkably flexible, wrapping and twisting phrases into unexpected origami shapes."
Forrest Dylan Bryant - Jazz Times

““Logan is an alto adventurer with a seductively quizzical sound, a blend of Ornette glee and Braxton curveball."”
Jim Macni - Village Voice NYC

“This hard-working young post-bopper, originally from Kansas City, Mo., has a warm, full sound on alto saxophone and a taste for music that makes warmth and fullness feel inevitable.”
Nate Chinen - New York Times

"Logan Richardson is an enterprising and resourceful young alto player, composer and bandleader"
Laurel Gross - All About Jazz NYC