Manu Katché: Third Round | CD Review

(ECM)For his third ECM recording, the French jazz, rock and pop drummer Manu Katché brings in Jan Garbarek-inspired saxophonist Tore Brunborg and British pianist Jason Rebello – Katché and Rebello are old hands from Sting's band, and electric bassist Pino Palladino and the drummer have worked together for 25 years. That degree of collective familiarity and virtuosity ought perhaps to have produced more startling results. Third Round often sounds tonally graceful (usually when Brunbo...

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