Django Bates: Confirmation – review

(Lost Marble)Django Bates has done it again. In 2010, he received rapturous cheers for his Beloved Bird album, dedicated to bebop sax genius Charlie Parker. This is the five-star follow-up, also with the young Danish bass and drums team of Petter Eldh and Peter Bruun, but now a more even mix of covers and Bates' own themes. Parker's famous title track is a rumble of swung and on-the-beat phrasing, triggering a rollercoaster of piano improv, snare-drum bursts and bass fills. Like Sonny Rollins, ...

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