Steve Slagle: "Into the Heart of It" Album Release

Personnel:
Steve Slagle - Alto Saxophone
Scott Wendholt - Trumpet
Bruce Barth - Piano
Ugonna Okegwo - Bass
Byron Landham - Drums

Saxophonist, Flutist and composer Steve Slagle makes his home in New York City. He has released twenty albums as a leader, and performed on countless others. His many original compositions are published by Slagle Music, BMI worldwide. Slagle was musical director of the Mingus Big Band for many years, and wrote many of the band’s arrangements, as well as playing and arranging with Joe Lovano’s Nonet. He has received two Grammy Awards for recordings with each of those groups, and continues his association with them. As a leader, Slagle reflects new sounds/arrangements and compositions with his original voice and truly unique bands.He lives in 'Alto Manhattan' the name used for upper Manhattan on the Hudson River.

In 2021 Slagle’s monumental recording, “Nascentia” (Panorama 1010), featuring a suite for three horns and music that reflects the positivity of a new-birth, in these historic times. In February, 2022, “Into The Heart Of It” (with special guest Randy Brecker), Slagle’s first ever album of ballads, will be released.(Panoram 1o11)