Grossman, Steve
My Second Prime
This album not only testifies to a Grossman in great shape, but also captures the moment of the relaunch of an artist's career My Second Prime is the last piece that completes the tetralogy of albums that Steve Grossman recorded between 1984 and 1990 for Red Records. The five years that separate the three studio recordings made for Red Records and My Second Prime show how Grossman's music had in a certain sense been "completed" and enriched by the personal reworking of Rollins' language. In those years, none of the saxophonist's colleagues could doubt the primary role that Grossman played in developing the language of the modern tenor sax. In 2012 Dave Liebman, his companion in Miles Davis' electric groups since the late '60s, stated that Grossman "was better than all of us tenor players of that generation. We all agreed on this.