Mantana Roberts: Live in London – review

(Central Control)This vibrant album is the BBC's Jazz on 3 recording of Matana Roberts's performance at Vortex in London in April 2009. The independence with which the young Chicagoan has developed a 1960s free-jazz sax approach (inspired by Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, mentor Fred Anderson and Albert Ayler, who impressed her when she was only three) goes way outside her years and the dominant tastes of her generation. This set represents all that, but also captures the on-the-fly evolution of an ...

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