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Bojan Z Trio: Transpacifik

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This art of music has the virtue of being plural and boundless. Even so, its development has allowed the formation of certain well-fenced lots. For instance, people say that Coltrane's playing was a definite landmark that no sax player after him could beat. Equally, they say that Tatum, Powell, and Evans did the whole thing that ...

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Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations

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Some truisms are so true. If you have the chance to listen to Miroslav Vitous' Universal Syncopations, you will understand why I'm compelled to say that music is about listening. Syncopations is a unique gathering of well vetted musicians who, besides of playing with real mastery, seem to be listening to each other carefully and respectfully. ...

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Julien Lourau: The Rise

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I first heard Julien Lourau on Abbey Lincoln's Who Used to Dance. He played this tenor pocket solo a la Coltrane that immediately connected me not to his roots, but to his possibilities as a saxophonist. He was about to achieve a voice of his own. Thereafter I found him on Henri Texier's Mad Nomad(s). Texier ...


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