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Marc Jufer: Trip To The Center

Read "Trip To The Center" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Swiss saxophonist Mark Jufer's Trip to the Center comes at you in a flurry of sharp, biting angles, presenting a free-form trio with a flair for twisting and turning on the whim and intuition of any of its three venturous inhabitants. An excited tangle of themes and ideas recorded in two days, Jufer, elastic upright bassist Lisa Hoppe and the careening suppleness of drummer Devin Gray set the tone right away with “Symétrique Ascendant" and “Mrddg." Written by ...

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Marc Jufer Trio: Trip To The Center

Read "Trip To The Center" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Marc Jufer is a Swiss saxophonist who has worked in a variety of formats. Here he leads a trio with a fire-breathing rhythm section of bassist Lisa Hoppe and drummer Devin Gray. Without a piano or other harmony instrument to support him, Jufer's sax playing comes off slinky and malleable. He subtly threads his way through his compositions, often ruminating at low pitch and volume before turning up the heat. This approach works because he has Hoppe and ...

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Marc Jufer Immersion Quartet: The Diving Man

Read "The Diving Man" reviewed by Luigi Sforza


Spesso è possibile individuare notevoli elementi di riflessione osservando con attenzione i particolari che contraddistinguono l'immagine di copertina di un disco. Imbattersi nella fotografia di quattro musicisti, che con i loro rispettivi strumenti si lasciano ritrarre vestiti in abito nero, cravatta uguale e camicia bianca, farebbe pensare ad una musica attenta alle etichette, ben confezionata, convenzionale. Se ben si osserva, però, si noteranno alcuni elementi, tracce -nel vestiario sgualcito, così come nelle acconciature non perfettamente in ordine di alcuni ...

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