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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam war film, Apocalypse Now, was released in 1979. After sitting for 2 and ½ hours, a viewer might have hoped for theater management to stand at the exits to hand out pamphlets explaining what had just gone down. The conflict had ended 4 years prior, and most war movies, pre- Vietnam, were straight-forward, America-saves-the-world affairs. Goodnight. In between a surf crazed Robert Duval, Playboy Bunnies, and the insane Colonel Kurtz played by Marlon Brando, the movie ...
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Add Chicago's Quin Kirchner to the growing list of young jazz artists who've dropped impressive multi-disc releases in recent years. It has become a kind of rite of passage for a new breed of heavy hitters, these double-and triple-album sets. They are not vanity projects. Not the good ones, anyway. They come from deep pools of creativity. The kind a very few young artists have accessible to them in the early prime of their careers. Kirchner's follow-up to ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Il tenorsassofonista chicagoano Nate Lepine, una discografia abbastanza sconfinata (anche per i generi toccati) a partire dai tardi anni Novanta, giunge solo ora all'esordio a proprio nome (registrazioni dell'ottobre 2014). Il terreno è quello di un jazz di derivazione post-bop, però generosamente risciacquato a fonti stilisticamente posteriori. Si avverte chiaramente, in altre parole, che di qui è passato anche un certo Ornette Coleman e non poco del jazz nato su quei presupposti. Il clima è vivo, con ...
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