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Shimmering ascents/plummeting cadences
CHRIS SEARLE swoons to one of the greats

London Jazz Festival, David Murray Quartet
Pizza Express, Soho

 

HE was jazz’s prime tenor saxophonist of the post-Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter era of the 1970s and ’80s: fiery, passionate and brimming with outstanding musicianship both within and outside the tradition.

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