Jazz Articles about Carl Maguire's Floriculture

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Carl Maguire's Floriculture: Sided Silver Solid

by Nic Jones
June 25, 2009

It's been three years since Floriculture (Between the Lines, 2006), but it's been worth the wait. Maguire has one of those talents which manifest itself in singularity of vision, as opposed to prodigious technique that is analytically applied. What's happened in the period between his first release and this one is that his gifts have coalesced and become more of a coherent whole, even while he's evidently moved into a rarefied stream of chamber jazz. Perhaps that has as much ...