Harvey Wainapel

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Harvey Wainapel QuartetWith Danny Green, Justin Grinnell and Duncan Moore"Wainapel proves that he is amongst the most imaginative, sensitive and creative saxophonists of the post-Coltrane era…" –The San Francisco Examiner​"Wainapel displayed incredible intimacy with the language of Brazilian music and great stage presence…"–O Globo (Rio de Janeiro)​ Can a man serve two masters?If the cat in question is Bay Area reed expert Harvey Wainapel, and the disciplines are jazz and Brazilian music, the answer is a resounding yes. A supremely eloquent clarinetist and a saxophonist of unusual presence and power, Wainapel is a truly ambidextrous artist who has delved deeply into two vast and variegated traditions. Of course, musical currents have ebbed and flowed between the two continental nations for much of the past century, and Wainapel is fully at home at the confluence of those influences (he's toured widely with Brazilian jazz giants Airto Moreira and Flora Purim). But most of the time he's got his feet firmly planted in one country or the other, even if his experience in the south shapes