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Saxophonist, Sonic Explorer Casey Benjamin Dies at 45
Casey Benjamin, the alto saxophonist, vocalist, keyboardist and producer who stamped his distinctive sounds on the…
Bassist Drew Gress has recently released The Irrational Numbers on Premonition Records. Using the same core group of players who appeared on his previous Premonition album, 7 Black Butterflies—Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey and Ralph Alessi—Gress succeeds in developing the language of jazz by adapting his group’s unlimited improvisational range to his lyrical and vibrant compositional structuralism.
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