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indicator of an improvising musician's level of achievement
is the ability to establish meaningful dialogue with performers of diverse
backgrounds. In this remarkable session, recorded in Morocco in 1999, saxophonist
Patrick Brennan demonstrates that an advanced knowledge of rhythm facilitates
discourse with a virtuoso African musical tradition. By exploring new
instrumentation and flouting conventions of piano, bass and drums, Brennan
shows us that the language of improvisation is limited only by one's imagination.
The pulsating groove of Marhaba ya Marhaba establishes a theme that runs
through the session; some of the finest call-and-response patterns on record.
There's a wonderful, unexplored world beyond fake book tunes and II-V-I
progressions, and people like Brennan will continue to lead us there. by James D. Armstrong, Jr. Jazz Now Editor of Music in Transition |
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