• CD Digipack
  

Track Listing:

1. But Not For Me 4:32
2. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 4:42
3. Because He Lives 6:31
4. The Symbol Of Priority 4:59
5. So Danco Samba 3:32
6. The September One 5:51
7. I Should Care 4:47
8. Fathers And Sons 4:50
9. Lush Life 6:01
10. Wendt's Bent 3:49

Line-up/Musicians:

Don Aliquo, Sr. - Tenor Saxophone
Don Aliquo, Jr. - Soprano, Alto, Tenor Saxophones, Clarinet
Jay Ashby - Percussion
Lucas Ashby - Percussion
Benny Benack, Jr. - Baritone Saxophone
Benny Benack Ⅲ - Trumpet
Ray DeFade - Alto Saxophone
Eric DeFade - Tenor Saxophone
Don Depaolis - Piano
Tony Depaolis - Bass
Dr. James T. Johnson, Jr. - Piano
James Johnson Ⅲ - Drums

Additional musicians:

Marty Ashby - Guitar
Max Leake - Piano
Eric Susoeff - Guitar
Paul Thompson - Bass
Thomas Wendt - Drums

Saxophonist Don Aliquo, Jr.’s formative years were spent in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA where he studied with his father, Don Aliquo Sr., an active and well-respected jazz artist and educator in the Pittsburgh community.

The Fathers and Sons project was truly a labour of love and a testament to a lifetime of music making, mutual respect, and admiration between a father and son. But what was originally envisioned as a “blowing date” became a celebration of jazz born and bred in Pittsburgh. The Johnson, DeFade, Benack, Ashby, and DePaolis families heard on Fathers and Sons represent a deeply rooted Pittsburgh jazz legacy. Each father’s and son’s enthusiasm and inspired playing adds joy and camaraderie to the project.

Don Jr. has been described as a player, “with an articulate flow of always surprising ideas, sophisticated with a dexterous technique and an incredibly smooth tenor sound that seduces rather than shouts.” Although his early influences were saxophonists John Coltrane, Stanley Turrentine, and Dexter Gordon, his recent playing also displays the influences of Lester Young, Stan Getz, and Joe Henderson. Don Jr. is currently Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Middle Tennessee State University, where he also served as Director of Jazz Studies from 2002 to 2012. Don Jr. is an in-demand clinician, presenting concerts and clinics throughout the United States, and is honoured to represent Vandoren reeds and mouthpieces and Selmer saxophones.

Don Sr. was born in Johnstown, PA and came to Pittsburgh in 1956. At age 19, he was accepted into the Walter Reed Band in Washington, DC, playing for many dignitaries including President Truman. Don Sr. has shared the stage with prominent entertainers such as Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Mel Tormé, and Johnny Mathis, performed with Hal Case, Johnny Long, and Woody Herman, appeared as a guest soloist with the River City Brass Band, and recorded for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. Don Sr. taught in the Highlands School District for 36 years while working as an active musician in Pittsburgh, was a member of the Steeler Football Pep Band during the 1970s and 1990s, and, in addition to Fathers and Sons, has recorded two CDs as a leader and one with the John Wilson Band.