Trish Clowes: And in the Night-Time She Is There – review

(Basho)The title of the UK saxophonist and composer Clowes' second album is from Oscar Wilde's poem The Sphinx, sung here by Kathleen Willison. With 2010's Tangent, Clowes unveiled a personal angle on jazz-classical crossovers that let jazz musicians and improv-minded classical players, including young violin star Thomas Gould, freely roam. The largest ensemble here is a nine-piece, rather than Tangent's full orchestra, but the venture goes confidently further. Clowes' sax-lines float across the...

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