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'shows his own allegiance to the recent past.
Listen to his earthy run-through of Don Pullen's God Has Smiled on Me - where the tenor sax assumes such tonal complexity, it's the sonic equivalent of a feverish hallucinatory snake bite - and just try to hold back visions of the bittersweet hereafter. Cartwright, a player at the top of his instinctive game, also takes on three tunes by enigmatic bassist Henry Grimes as well as tenor saxman Frank Wright's Jerry (which featured Grimes on the 1965 original).
'~ The Memphis Commercial Appeal Bill Ellis 'From moody terseness to flamboyant excitement, the trio plows onward as staunch workhorses. The program combines great strength with a gentle-giant persona that precludes it from being intimidating. The trio builds a foundation of weighty consistency with their massive attack, yielding music with granite properties to withstand all the elements of nature'~ Frank Robolino 'GloryLand PonyCat: It's a new band, so it counts for this poll, but it's chock full of veterans, namely the man, the myth, the McKnight winner--George Cartwright. Best known as the guy behind avant-jazz masters Curlew, here he gets a chance to really strut his stuff as one of the greatest living avant-garde sax players. Yes, he really is that good. When you add local stalwart Alden Ikeda and Adam Linz, it makes the group even more special. These aren't people doing the same old paraphrases of jazz clichés; they are making a new and vital language
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