Compassionate Dictatorship: Cash Cows | CD review

FMRThe contemporary guitarist and teacher Jez Franks and the saxophonist Tori Freestone are joined here by premier-league rhythm team Jasper Høiby on bass and drummer Ben Reynolds. Cash Cows hits all the right contemporary-jazz buttons in the ease with which it splices idioms and time patterns, the ingenuity with which long-spun melody lines unwind and the poise with which the improvisers spring off the writing. Reynolds's compact, busy drumming, and Høiby's big, full-toned bass presence are c...

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