Joe Lovano Us Five – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonJoe Lovano has said that he doesn't play free jazz, he plays jazz, free. On his superb new album Bird Songs, a set of adventurous interpretations of Charlie Parker classics, the gifted American saxophonist demonstrates what he means, but keeps the mercurial source material explicitly displayed. Lovano and the Us Five band took the policy of playing jazz free even further out. The set was less of a seductive balance of surprise and familiarity than the recording, but if bebo...

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