Barry Altschul
Despite — or maybe because of — all the global turmoil, an awful lot of compelling music was heard at Big Ears.
Long Tall Sunshine pulls off a delightful paradox: it combines in-your-face vigor with subtlety, probing free improvisations with appealing compositions.
It is enormous fun to hear how this group of veterans try to think in new ways — as they do throughout this engaging release.
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