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Gabriel Johnson: Fra_ctured

Read "Fra_ctured" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 21, 2010

Gabriel Johnson seemed anointed for jazz greatness: A New England Conservatory prodigy who served as musical director for Blood Sweat & Tears when he was merely 24, and was personally recruited by Clint Eastwood to serve as trumpet soloist for Eastwood's films Changeling (2008) and Invictus (2009).

Then a friend hipped Johnson to electronic music and music software, and all musical hell broke loose. “For so many years now, the trumpet has been confined to a specific spot ...