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Bern Nix Quartet: Negative Capability

by Florence Wetzel
July 14, 2013

Guitarist Bern Nix has participated in many fine groups over the course of his career, most notably saxophonist Ornette Coleman's historic Prime Time, where Nix became one of the foremost interpreters of Coleman's groundbreaking harmolodic approach. These days Nix has created a quartet that's exploding onto the jazz scene in a big way. After a fiery set at the 18th Vision Festival, musician-blogger John Pietaro declared, “The Bern Nix Quartet is everywhere and exactly-where, and the overall effect is dizzying ...