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Musician

Alex Merritt

Album

Anatta

Label: F-IRE Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Conn Artist; Ugly Beauty; Justin Time-berlake; For Henri Dutilleux; For Peter Schat; Anatta; Memories Of You; Pannonica.

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Article: Year in Review

Budd Kopman's Best Releases of 2016

Read "Budd Kopman's Best Releases of 2016" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Of the seventy or so albums I was fortunate to review this year (with many still waiting in the wings), the releases below (in chronological order) are those that moved me the most and hence that I remember the clearest, even after a year. The quality of the music is uniformly high, and leaving something off ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Merritt Quartet: Anatta

Read "Anatta" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Everyone, listeners and composers/players bring their life experience to the music at hand. Jazz musicians in particular, especially today when many, if not most, compose as well as perform, pour themselves once into a composition, and then again when performing it. The performer aims to virtually disappear, to separate the distance and space between himself and ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Merritt Quartet: Anatta

Read "Anatta" reviewed by Tyran Grillo


It should be no wonder that Alex Merritt should be a practitioner of Vipassanā meditation. The English tenor saxophonist translates that very focus on mindful breathing to the horn with seamless concentration and awareness of heart. A child of Cambridge and graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire, Merritt has found a character-building groove among bassist Sam Lasserson, ...


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