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Warne Marsh Quartet: Ne Plus Ultra

Read "Ne Plus Ultra" reviewed by Brad Glanden


As a protégé of Lennie Tristano in the late 1940s and early 1950s, tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh learned lessons that shaped his playing until his death in 1987. He has inspired a cult following among musicians, particularly saxophonists seeking an alternative to the John Coltrane approach, and Ne Plus Ultra fully justifies his status as a ...

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Warne Marsh Quartet: Ne Plus Ultra

Read "Ne Plus Ultra" reviewed by Nic Jones


The passing of time has done nothing to reduce the singularity of Warne Marsh's art, and this set, recorded at the end of the 1960s, is an excellent working definition. Marsh was always a musician for whom points of reference in terms of influences were never helpful. To say, for example, that he shared a certain ...


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