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Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet – Furioso

Swiss soprano and alto saxophonist Jurg Wickihalder noted in the liner essay to 2008’s A Feeling for Someone (Intakt), a series of duets with pianist Chris Wiesendanger, a strong affinity for Steve Lacy’s music and approach to the horn. Wickihalder studied with Lacy for a short time in 1992, and though his phraseology […]

Haptic – The Medium (Flingco Sound System) [LP DVD]

Of the rationales for the growth of output and energy in recent years among experimental improvisers, the music’s inherent communality should be cited as the most significant factor. U.S. musicians have perhaps subconsciously taken cues from their European counterparts in a new, pragmatic, open source approach to continuity that could scarcely be found here […]

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