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TENOR saxophonist Rachel Musson, playing at Cafe Oto with drummer Mark Sanders and bassist Olie Brice, creates an adventure with every solo: excitation, lyricism and deep creative beauty.
Her sound spans a century of jazz, from the rococo circles and slap-tongue phrases of New Orleans; the relentless engine of Coleman Hawkins, the vision of Coltrane to the sheer audacity and seamless power of Evan Parker. You can hear it all.
With Sanders’s hearkening, listening and responding drums and Brice’s depth of sonic dance, the trio make precious union, their giving and receiving of sounds making music as it should ever be: co-operative and steeped in all the resources of the blood and brain.
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