Results for "Hafez Modirzadeh (with Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey and Craig Taborn)"

Hafez Modirzadeh with Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey and Craig Taborn: Facets

by Troy Dostert
March 9, 2021

A rigorous, sometimes imposingly cerebral innovator, tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh has dedicated himself since the 1980s to ever more ambitious ways of opening up the Western musical tradition to scrutiny. A particular obsession is the restrictive quality of conventional instrumental tunings, which, as Modirzadeh perceives them, can limit the possibilities available to improvisers and composers alike, ...