Rudresh Mahanthappa/Bunky Green: Apex | CD review

(Pi)Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa is best known as pianist Vijay Iyer's regular partner, but he's paired here with an alto sax inspiration from his student years: the little-known (and now 75-year-old) former Charles Mingus sideman and eminent jazz educator Bunky Green. Like Mahanthappa, Green enjoys tonal manipulations that take liberties even by the standards of a music as unbuttoned as jazz. (The former absorbed this style from sitar players, the latter from street musicians in Algiers in t...

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