Ty Bailey Productions recently wrote a review of my album No Worries. Go to their site, and you can access the review if you click on “Reviews.” Here is a PDF version of the document, and below is the review. Thanks!

Music from this unfamiliar artist results in a welcome surprise. Wow! Where has this musician been hiding? New York born and bred saxophonist/educator Larry Slezak, who delivers his very first album as leader with No Worries, and what an album it is. With a dynamic selection of standards—from Neal Hefti’s oft-recorded “Girl Talk,” Carl Fischer’s love ballad, “You’ve Changed,” to a riveting treatment of Jose Feliciano’s “Chico and the Man,” the theme song from the old television series with Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze. The vibrant music here, clearly sustains a good measure of swing, superbly bolstered by dicey hard-driving charts and a striking performance from the leader and extended cast. A longtime resident of Houston, Texas, Slezak, is the premiere Jazz saxophonist in the Houston Jazz community who also performs with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, as well as serving as the Director of Jazz Ensembles at Rice University. For this first effort, Slezak records with a core quintet comprised of guitarist Clayton Dyess, bassist Thomas Helton, Jose-Miguel Yamal on Hammond B-3 organ and piano, and son Joe Slezak on drums. There are two orchestral pieces (sixteen-piece string orchestra on four cuts,), straight ahead and some bluesy sounds here. This is an impressive beginning for a truly outstanding musician.