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Karlton Hester: Musicism for Your Imagination: Alive at Barnes Hall
by Robert Spencer
Karlton Hester is an assistant professor of music at Cornell University, where this disc was recorded. He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with a particularly affinity for the flute, although he is equally at home on the tenor sax (as well as the soprano, which he plays less often, and the synthesizer, which he plies like a mad acid-rock keyboardist - see the synthesizer workout Equipoise"). Musicism" is a term he coined for the interaction of dance, poetry, music, and presumably ...
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