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Pharoah Sanders Quartet: Live At Fabrik

Read "Live At Fabrik" reviewed by Chris May


One reason Pharoah Sanders was such a special artist was the prismatic nature of his music. When Sanders lit on to a new avenue of investigation, he did not in the process reject what he had been doing up until that moment. Instead, he wove the new perspective into the existing structure, enriching rather than replacing it. The result was a rainbow in which the joins between what might have been, in lesser hands, incompatible instead became inaudible, and the ...

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Curtis Lundy: Purpose

Read "Purpose" reviewed by Jim Santella


As if working a nightclub session in the wee hours of the morning, Curtis Lundy's quintet purrs with a smooth sound and a subtle, but forceful, rhythmic drive. The bassist was a student at Miami University in 1979 when Betty Carter “discovered" him and brought him to New York. Since then, he's had many opportunities to work clubs and concert halls in search of the right setting for creating mainstream jazz. Against All Odds, his previous album, and Purpose remind ...


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