Any impartial assessment of My Ideal, Sam Dillon‘s second album for Cellar Music (following 2018’s Out in the Open), should leave no doubt that the New York-born and based tenor saxophonist has definitely hit his stride, punctuating an already strong and persuasive voice on the horn with ample self-confidence and and a bounteous wellspring of innovative concepts and ingenious phrases. In other words, Dillon is the whole package, swinging in the same league as such heralded contemporaries as Eric Alexander, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman and Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, while proving a worthy successor to such legendary masters as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Sonny Stitt, Joe Henderson and a host of others. Before dismissing that…

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