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Book 'P' of Practitioners

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Peacock—To Bud Freeman; Pelican—To Buck Clayton; Penguin—To Vladimir Horowitz; Platypus—To Elvin Jones; Porcupine—To Serge Diaghilev; Pterodactyl—To Cat Anderson.

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Jon Raskin: Book 'P' of Practitioners

Read "Book 'P' of Practitioners" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 6, 2021

Saxophonist Steve Lacy was famous for writing music dedicated to artists who inspired him. Some of his rarely heard etudes for solo saxophone are divided equally into three books, each named by a letter. Of these, he only recorded one set in his lifetime, Hocus Pocus—Book 'H' of “Practitioners" (Crépuscule, 1986). Equally idiosyncratic saxophonist Jon Raskin, ...