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Global Jazz Trio: Live in Detroit: Global Jazz Trio at Baker

by C. Michael Bailey
March 19, 2007

Perhaps the post beautiful thing about Live in Detroit: Global Jazz Trio at Baker's Keyboard Lounge is that the Global Jazz Trio does not sport keyboards, it is a Sonny Rollins-style saxophone trio, circa 1958, except for the pronounced reverb and echo on Mark Hershberger's saxophones and the Richard Smith's electric bass rather than the acoustic double bass. The Global Jazz Trio's performance has much in common with Toph-E and the Pussycats' Live in Detroit (M'Bubba Musc, 2006). Both bands ...