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Tommaso Starace: Plays The Photos Of Elliott Erwitt

by Nic Jones
April 30, 2006

Here's further evidence of the fact that there's a whole lot of mileage left in the modern mainstream. There's a slightly acidic quality to Tommaso Starace's alto sax, which serves among other things to set him at some distance from many of the more common influences. On the level of a player, then, this puts him in a good position, especially in view of the fact that his work on the soprano sax might be described as akin to a ...