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E.C.F.A. Trio: Die Faden
by AAJ Staff
The E.C.F.A. Trio has been working in the Austin, Texas area for the past eight years, and Die Faden is their first album. Because of their unusual instrumentation (tenor saxophone, viola, drums) and because of their frequent use of rubato or unmetered rhythms, it is tempting to classify the E.C.F.A. Trio as practitioners of free jazz. But that would be a hasty, even short-sighted act of labelling, because Die Faden offers a stimulating variety of idioms and approaches.
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