Dave Gelly 

Apollo Saxophone Orchestra: Perpetual Motion – review

No one understands the saxophone like Barbara Thompson, and here she writes for 12 of them quite brilliantly, writes Dave Gelly
  
  


This is stretching the term "jazz" a bit, but nobody worries too much about that any more. Here's something really new. Twelve saxophones, from tiny sopranino to mighty bass, make a terrific sound, especially when playing music composed by Barbara Thompson. In fact, she plays the soprano solo in one of these 10 pieces, despite having lived with Parkinson's disease for the past 15 years. No composer understands this instrument better than Thompson does, and she really brings out the endlesss variety of tone, which is its greatest asset. The playing of the whole ensemble is quite sensational.

 

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