This is saxophonist Peter Brötzmann with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, though it in no way sounded like Kenny G with Yo-Yo Ma. It was recorded in an “industrial urban warehouse district.” It’s on the Atavistic label (read: not easy listening). Brötzmann scares me. He claims to be playing a saxophone but half the time it comes out sounding like a flame-cutting machine gone wrong. You should be scared too.
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Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the woods of central New Hampshire. A past contributor to Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and Salon, he originated several of our weekly features including the Friday Morning Listen, (Cross the) Heartland, WTF! Wednesday, and Sparks Fly on E Street. Follow him on Twitter: @msaleski. Contact Something Else! at [email protected].
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YEAH–SCARED? NOT ANY MORE -JUST DISGUSTED and sick at heart that there are so many cats that really play-and cant even get arested -and this guy who im sure knows exactly what he’s doing and why & who he’s doing it for aside from the $$ ( because he can be booked dam near any where he wants ) brings out the sad need for the jazz layman’s search of the music that heres this and never hears a —lets say a Paul Desmond or a Stan Getz OR ME——nothing new here re. my observations -just the nature of the beast-YEAH Mark you NAILED IT! my brother. live & be happy——-mort