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By Bob PROTZMAN
Contributing Writer
If you think critically acclaimed, poll winning Joe Lovano is the one great jazz saxophonist from Cleveland, you're wrong.
If you need convincing that you're misinformed on the matter, please stop by downtown Erie's Breeze Steakhouse & Grille Saturday night to check out tenor saxist Ernie Krivda, the "other" great Cleveland sax player.
Once described by a critic as "a tenor wielding monster stalking the southern shore of Lake Erie," Krivda, 63, has been called by some one of the greatest tenor players in jazz—period.
Now in his fifth decade as a professional jazz musician, Krivda has built an impressive discography of some 30 albums on nationally distributed labels such as Cadence, CIMP, Koch, Timeless and Inner City. His three Inner City albums, recorded in the late 1970s-early '80s while Krivda was living in New York City, are scheduled for reissue on CD this July.
From the beginning, Krivda's playing has been praised by critics and peers alike as dynamic, original and unique.
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