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Fixations (14) - Solo Saxophone 1997-2000

Label: Emanem
Released: 2001
Track listing: Woodland Drift; First Bottle; Second Bottle; Third Bottle; Last Bottle; The Train and the Gate, part 1; The Train and the Gate, part 2; Robusta; Liberica; Almost New; Nearly Art; Sinking Down; Flag a Ride; Clarence.

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John Butcher: Fixations (14) - Solo Saxophone 1997-2000

Read "Fixations (14) - Solo Saxophone 1997-2000" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Though saxophonist John Butcher is not short on instrumental prowess, his primary assets lie in the realm of ideas. On Fixations, Butcher has rejected conventional jazz thinking (swing, melodicism, harmonic cycles) in favor of creating his own personal language of improvisation. As Butcher puts it in the liner notes, “...improvisation can only make sense when it ...


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