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Hugo Siegmeth: Red Onions: Celebrating Sidney Bechet
by Chris May
Against the odds, this is an audacious and mesmerising album--the second tribute album in as many weeks, after Pat Martino's Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery, to confound expectations.
Hugo Siegmeth is a 36 year-old German reed player whose style owes nothing to the great soprano saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet (1897-1959). His astringent and quirky lyricism has instead developed out of Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson. These musicians, along with younger, freer players, provide the prism through ...
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