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Skaller/Holt Duo
Skaller / Holt Duo: Music of Mark Dresser
by Glenn Astarita
This duo's first album focuses on a selection of progressive jazz and improvising bass great Mark Dresser's compositions. Known as a first-call session ace, mainly for projects that skirt the boundaries of jazz amid avant-garde inclined encounters, Dresser is also a heralded solo artist. Here, Phillip Skaller and Danny Holt's shrewd integration of pianos, celeste and percussion is the tool of choice for these staggered reconstruction efforts, presenting an impressionistic panorama of Dresser's work. With nimble phrasings, asymmetrical pulses and ...
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