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EP 106 - SAM NEWSOME; A visual saxophone artist who paints with notes
To celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month, we are really excited to present New York-based saxophonist and composer Sam Newsome.
Sam often works in the medium of solo saxophone, an approach for which he received a five-star review in Downbeat magazine & gained world-wide critical acclaim with his 2009 recording, Blue Soliloquy: Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone.
Ed Enright, from Downbeat magazine, called the 2014 release, The Straight Horn of Africa, "a modern masterpiece."
Many of the notes and sounds used in his compositions and improvisations stem from his sound palette of extended techniques…
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