Apogee (Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh album)
Apogee is an album by saxophonists Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh recorded in 1978 and released on the Warner Bros. label. Reception. "The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide" states ""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". In Jazz Review, Mark Keresman called it "A sterling set of beautifully recorded, searing, straight-ahead, mainstream bop tenor madness".