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Jonathan Finlayson’s Jazz Is Cerebral and Strutting on ‘3 Times Round’
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Jonathan Finlayson’s Jazz Is Cerebral and Strutting on ‘3 Times Round’

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 / 9 October 2018

Trumpeter and composer Jonathan Finlayson's third recording continues his streak of crackling, urgent music, this time matching his horn with two saxophones in a set of swirling new jazz.

Steve Coleman and Five Elements Promise That Jazz Remains Our Endless Well of Creativity
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Steve Coleman and Five Elements Promise That Jazz Remains Our Endless Well of Creativity

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 / 17 September 2018

The program recorded here across two sets at the legendary New York club is immaculate in sound and conception—as good a summary of the core idea of Steve Coleman's music as we will ever have.