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The Big Shake-Up: The Big Shake-Up

Read "The Big Shake-Up" reviewed by Roger Farbey


On first hearing Rusell Bennett's opener, the boisterously funky “Don't Block The Box," it's seems tempting to compare this tight brass heavy British octet with the considerably larger Loose Tubes ensemble. But the comparison is inaccurate for several reasons. The compositions (three are by Bennett) are relatively straightforward and certainly make less demands on an audience than Django Bates's more cerebral and labyrinthine inventions. That's not to say this band offers purely simplistic music, which they most certainly do not. ...

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