The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Evan Parker, Mat Maneri and Lucian Ban
The Vortex, London
THE Vortex in Hackney, east London — itself a vibrant multicultural area — is the setting for this truly internationalist trio. Pianist Lucian Ban is from Seaca, a Transylvanian village in Romania, viola virtuoso Mat Maneri is the grandson of Sicilian immigrants who grew up in Brooklyn and saxophonist Evan Parker is from Bristol.
The opening harmonies of Parker’s weeping, flickering and sharply crystallised notes on his soprano saxophone gel with Maneri’s bowed, lamenting viola before Ban enters with his softly struck keys of empathy.
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