Agustí Fernández, Barry Guy and Ramón López: Morning Glory – review

(Maya)The guiding spirits of Agustí Fernández, the Barcelona pianist, include the iconoclastic Cecil Taylor for piano improv, and Iannis Xenakis (with whom he briefly studied) for composition. But this combined studio recording and New York live gig for Fernández's trio with the British bass virtuoso Barry Guy and Spanish percussionist Ramón López, shows how much those questing impulses are leavened with an absorbingly familiar lyricism. Fernández's romantic themes can become overly sim...

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