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‘The resistance is self-reliance and self-definition in opposition to the increasing corporate and arts business’
Chris Searle talks to Danish saxophonist LOTTE ANKER about jazz, communities and freedom
Lotte Anker
[Pic: Peter Gannushkin/lotteanker.com]
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
THE father of Copenhagen-born alto saxophonist Lotte Anker was a forester: “I grew up in different places in the countryside,” she tells me.
Perhaps that is why from her very first notes on her album Floating Islands, her sound is like human birdsong, her improvisations full of flying melody.
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