Cory Weeds
O Sole Mio! Music From The Motherland
2021 - Cellar Live: CL101219 / Cellar Music: CM100619
https://www.cellarlive.com/
https://coryweeds./album/o-sole-mio-music-from-the-motherland

* Cory Weeds     : alto saxophone
* Eric Alexander : tenor saxophone
* Mike LeDonne   : Hammond B3 organ
* Peter Bernstein: guitar
* Joe Farnsworth : drums

https://www.coryweeds.com/
https://www.ericalexanderjazz.com/
https://www.mikeledonne.org/
https://www.peterbernsteinmusic.com/
https://www.joefarnsworthdrums.com/

Recorded by Chris Gestrin at Armoury Studios,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on October 6, 2019.

Reviews
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By Jack Bowers
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/o-sole-mio-music-from-the-motherland-cory-weeds-cellarmusic__32657

O Sole Mio!, the latest in a series of splendid albums by Canadian-bred
saxophonist/entrepreneur Cory Weeds, is subtitled "Music from the Motherland"—
in other words, Italy, which, presumably, is Woods' ancestral home. Whatever
the case, Woods' blue-chip quintet focuses for the most part on music born in
Italy or written by Italian-Americans including Henry Mancini, Nino Rota, Pat
Martino, Chick Corea and Dodo Marmarosa. To allay any doubt that all would go
well, Weeds invited the superlative tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander to share
the front line and recruited Alexander's long-time rhythm section—organist Mike
LeDonne, guitarist Peter Bernstein, drummer Joe Farnsworth—to lend its usual
unflagging support. [...]

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By Pierre Giroux
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/o-sole-mio-music-from-the-motherland-cory-weeds-cellarmusic

By Sebastian Scotney
https://londonjazznews.com/2021/02/14/cory-weeds-with-mike-ledonne-peter-bernstein-joe-farnsworth-eric-alexander-o-sole-mio/

By Raina Hersh
https://jazz.fm/cory-weeds-interview-o-sole-mio-italian-jazz/

von Music Farm (de)
https://www.musicfarm.org/AVG-Rezensionen2/cory-weeds-o-sole-mio-.html

de egrojworld (es)
https://egrojworld..com/2021/07/cory-weeds-o-sole-mio.html