Heinz Sauer/Michael Wollny: Don't Explain – Live in Concert – review

(Act)With If (Blue) Then (Blue) in 2010, German saxophone legend Heinz Sauer brought his remarkable relationship with pianist Michael Wollny – his junior by at least half a century – to a new high. All Blues (from Miles Davis's Kind of Blue) reappears on this live account, opening the set with hissing tenor-sax exhalations that thicken to mournful hoots and occasional startled cries, as if tracing the emotional shifts of the tune with hardly any of the original notes. The 80-year-old Sauer a...

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