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Allison Au Quartet: Wander Wonder

Read "Wander Wonder" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 22, 2018

Toronto-based, Juno Award-winning alto saxophonist Allison Au and her quartet present their follow-up to 2017's Forest Grove (Self Produced) with Wander Wonder. The set of all Au originals--with keyboardist Todd Pentney co-writing “Force Majeur"--opens with a translucent dreamscape, “The Valley," that sounds like something that Daniel Lanois might have cooked up. The quartet follows up this ...

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Allison Au Quartet: Forest Grove

Read "Forest Grove" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
March 26, 2016

The sheer number of great young jazz musicians coming out of every corner of the world is simply staggering. Allison Au is an alto saxophonist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada whose debut album, The Sky Was Pale Blue, Then Grey (Self-Produced, 2014) was nominated for a Juno Award: Canada's equivalent of a Grammy nomination. Her new album, ...

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