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Magnus Dolerud, Hans Backenroth, and Oscar Johansson Werre: Trio Circle
by Jim Worsley
Tried and true formats have been revisited time and time again over the years. The saxophone trio is amongst that core group. In the right heads and hands, such a trio offers the opportunity for new freedoms, and for inventiveness to blossom, mature, and travel. While Trio Circle's charted arrangements bring symmetry to the project, it is their uncharted methodology that delightfully proves the old adage that the journey outweighs the destination." Trio Circle consists of tenor saxophonist ...
read moreHans Backenroth: Bassic Instinct
by Chris Mosey
Attempts to free the double-bass from its role as purely a rhythm instrument began in 1939, when Jimmy Blanton, a young bassist from St. Louis, joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra. For the next two years, until Blanton's tragic death from tuberculosis, he and Duke did things with the instrument that had never been done before. The sound of Blanton playing Jack The Bear," accompanied by the Ellington band instead of vice versa, took the jazz world by storm.
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