WINDS SHIFTING
Jeff Chan
Asian Improv Records, 1997Jeff Chan/tenor saxophone
Trevor Dunn/bass
Elliot Humberto Kavee/drums
"The company Jeff Chan keeps on 'Winds Shifting', his debut on the Asian Improv label, underscores his status as one of the rising twenty-something tenor saxophonists on the local jazz scene. Francis Wong, leading saxophonist of the Bay Area's Asian American Creative Music community, guests on a couple of tracks, and the album as a whole is bolstered by arguably THE heaviest rhythm section in contemporary improv - Trevor Dunn (bass) and Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums/cello). The moment to moment surprises stirred up by the Dunn-Kavee duo provide Chan with limitless foundation upon which to develop his meditative, deeply melodic statements."
—Sam Prestianni