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Never Enough Hope

The Gift Economy

By Never Enough Hope

Label: Contraphonic
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Banner; Des Moines; Two Ghosts At The Table; Grant Park; The Light Tilts Out; A Gift.

Never Enough Hope: The Gift Economy

by John Dworkin
October 19, 2008

Tobin Summerfield's Chicago ensemble Never Enough Hope is a modern musician's Noah's ark. The players come in pairs: two trumpets, two alto saxophones, two tenor saxophones, two lower range saxophones, two violins, two mid-range strings, two basses, two guitars, two vibraphones and two drum kits. The resemblance in instrumentation to a traditional jazz big band is ...