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Marc Baron

Three saxophonists' very different paths since "Propagations"

by John Eyles
November 23, 2016

Back in 2007, Marc Baron on alto, Bertrand Denzler on tenor and Jean-Luc Guionnet also on alto were three-quarters of the unnamed saxophone quartet that recorded the ground-breaking album Propagations (Potlatch, 2007), alongside Stéphane Rives on soprano. Together, the four reinvented the rule book for a saxophone quartet in the new millennium, ignoring the conventional vocabulary ...

Hidden Tapes

By Marc Baron

Label: Potlatch Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1991-2005; 2010-2012; Interlude (Romania to Paris); 2013 – A happy summer with children; 1965-2013.

Marc Baron: Hidden Tapes

by John Eyles
August 1, 2014

Since the turn of the millennium, Marc Baron has taken us on an interesting aural journey (albeit one that could have been more fully documented on disc.) He has evolved from an improvising alto saxophonist--maybe best represented by the sax quartet on Propagations (Potlatch, 2008)--through transitional experiments such as the “interesting" Formnction (Potlatch, 2009) by the ...

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By Marc Baron

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2012

Une Fois, Chaque Fois

By Marc Baron

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2010

Propagations

By Marc Baron

Label: Potlatch Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.

Marc Baron, Bertrand Denzler, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Stephane Rives: Propagations

by John Eyles
October 16, 2007

Just when it seemed that the saxophone quartet might be a format that had run out of ideas or momentum, along come this French foursome to add new vitality to the genre. For reasons that are not entirely clear, even when they have included otherwise free, radical players (I'm thinking of Julius Hemphill, David Murray, Lol ...