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Andy Suzuki: Prime
by Dan McClenaghan
You'd think the job of making a successful jazz CD would be hard enough without imposing restrictions on the process. The restriction that saxophonist Andy Suzuki has tackled on Prime is prime numbers--and refresher for those who have forgotten their math studies, a prime number is one those that can be divided only by itself and the number one.Enter the mathematically inclined Suzuki, who wanted to ."..combine my interest in composition and my fascination with numbers." Prime numbers ...
read moreKeyboardist Nick Manson Releases "Mercator" with John Patitucci, Ian Froman & Andy Suzuki
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Mercator Nick Manson, John Patitucci, Ian Froman, Andy Suzuki Manasus Music 2008
Recorded in NYC on St. Patrick's Day, 2008, the improvisational music included within Mercator has little to do with luck, and everything to do with musicality, patience and soulful virtuosity.
Mercator is the result of four journeyman jazz musicians' willingness to allow seven newly penned compositions; never before performed or rehearsed, take them across a broad, emotional, sonic spectrum, without any imposed ...
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