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Amanda Sedgwick: Reunion
by Jack Bowers
Here's yet another clear refutation of the ludicrous assertion that women jazz musicians are unable to measure up to their male counterparts. I know nothing about alto saxophonist Amanda Sedgwick--as Reunion was recorded in Stockholm, she may be Swedish--but I do know a player when I hear one, and Sedgwick not only holds her own on this engaging bop-based quartet/quintet date, she overshadows everyone including her seasoned front-line companion, the American trumpeter Philip Harper.
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