Branford Marsalis review – Bath Abbey

Bath AbbeyFilling the Abbey’s natural echo chamber with low booms, fluting trills and birdlike peeps, Marsalis explores jazz’s deep connection with the churchThe jazz saxophonist’s lexicon of swagger, sermonising and private introspection has entered sacred spaces since the 1990s, taken there by the hit partnership of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble – but Branford Marsalis goes further back into African American connections between jazz and the church, balancin...

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