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Alexandre Pierrepont / Mike Ladd: Maison Hantee

Read "Maison Hantee" reviewed by John Sharpe


There's a recurring argument about whether the marriage of jazz and poetry can ever be properly consummated, with strong opinions on either side, but the majority of adherents in the naysayers camp. Partly it's to do with the inflexibility of the words, which can't respond in the moment to the musician's whim, forcing the music to take a subservient position, and partly it's that words struggle to withstand repeated listening with the same robustness as such an abstract art form ...

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