Jazz Articles about David Torn

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David Torn: Prezens

by John Kelman
April 10, 2007

David Torn has always been an unrepentant anti-guitarist. As early as his '80s work with Everyman Band and the Jan Garbarek Group he's been less about the expected guitar roles of melody, rhythm and muscular soloing and more about texture and revolutionary processing. In recent years he's brought his distinctive soundscaping concept to recordings by saxophonist Tim Berne's Science Friction and Hard Cell, as well as others by bassist Drew Gress and trumpeter Dave Douglas. It's been nearly a decade ...