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Timo Shanko: Freedom Right Now

by AAJ Staff
December 29, 2004

Bassist and saxophonist Timo Shanko presents an exhilarating set of songs on Freedom Right Now. Taking a musical cue from the influential groups of Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, the obscure Shanko is joined by an equally unknown set of musicians that include Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, Keala Kaumeheiwa and Gary Wicks on bass, and Luther Gray on drums. A little research tells us that Shanko plays bass on Joe Morris' current trio and with Boston's Fully Celebrated Orchestra. ...