Name: Greg Abate - jazz saxophonist
Start: 2025-11-08T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Anglican Chapel, Paxton's Arboretum, London Road Cemetery, CV1 2JT Coventry, United Kingdom

An evening of jazz with one of America's best contemporary alto saxophonists
For many years Greg has been recognised as one of America’s top saxophonists, playing with Ray Charles from 1972-73 and later featured in the Artie Shaw band. He has recorded two well-received albums with another of America’s top alto saxophonists, Phil Woods, and another, Birds of a Feather, with Britain’s Alan Barnes.
“Multi-saxophonist Greg Abate is a prime example of the “rear back and blow” school of contemporary bop-based players. The tunes he writes or chooses are based on the kinds of changes that harmony-oriented jazzmen have favoured since the beginning and he swings through them with an eager and easy virtuosity.” –David Franklin, Jazz Times.