Marc Copland/John Abercrombie: Speak to Me – review

(Pirouet)When he worked in the 1970s as a sax sideman for world-jazz percussionist celebrity Chico Hamilton, Marc Copland (known as Marc Cohen in those days) had to play with rather more punch than on the recordings he has made as a pianist since the millennium. Copland swapped the piano for the sax after his Hamilton years, and though his leanings seem to be towards a contemplative post-Bill Evans music, he has never fallen under the spell of that style's famous exponents. His playing tends to ...

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