| Apogee | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh |
| Cover: | Apogee (Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh album).jpg |
| Released: | 1978 |
| Recorded: | May 17–21 and June 3, 1978 |
| Studio: | ABC, Los Angeles, California |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 42:28 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. BSK 3236 |
| Producer: | Walter Becker, Donald Fagen |
| Chronology: | Warne Marsh |
| Prev Title: | Warne Out |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | Conversations with Warne Volume 1 |
| Next Year: | 1978 |
Apogee is an album by saxophonists Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh, recorded in 1978 and released on the Warner Bros. label.[1] [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide states that "Apogee is an unadulterated burner, guaranteed to work for tenor freaks."The AllMusic review noted: "Apogee is an anomaly in many ways. First, it is a Southern California answer to the great titan tenor battle records of the '40s and '50s. Rather than sounding like a cutting contest, it sounds like a gorgeous exercise in swinging harmony and melodic improvisation by two compadres. ... the pair engaged a kind of freewheeling, good-time set that remains one of the most harmonically sophisticated recordings to come out of the 1970s." On All About Jazz, Chris M. Slawecki observed: "It is impossible to distinguish one man’s tenor from the other: sometimes they swing in unison, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes in duet or counterpunching, but they are always strong, meaty and powerful."[3] In Jazz Review, Mark Keresman called it "a sterling set of beautifully recorded, searing, straight-ahead, mainstream bop tenor madness."[4]