Lew Tabackin: Living Legend at Jazzhus Montmartre

Lew Tabackin, flutist and tenor saxophonist, is an artist of astonishing vision. His electrifying flute playing is at once virtuosic, primordial, cross-cultural and passionate. His distinctive tenor sax style includes the use of wide intervals, abrupt changes of mood and tempo and purposeful fervour, all in the service of showing the full range of possibilities of his instrument - melodically, rhythmically, and dynamically. Without copying or emulating jazz greats of the past, Mr. Tabackin has absorbed elements into his style, ultimately creating his own sound and aura. Boris Kozlov will accompany him on the bass and Mark Taylor on the drums....

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Lew Tabackin, flutist and tenor saxophonist, is an artist of astonishing vision. His electrifying flute playing is at once virtuosic, primordial, cross-cultural and passionate. His distinctive tenor sax style includes the use of wide intervals, abrupt changes of mood and tempo and purposeful fervour, all in the service of showing the full range of possibilities of his instrument - melodically, rhythmically, and dynamically. Without copying or emulating jazz greats of the past, Mr. Tabackin has absorbed elements into his style, ultimately creating his own sound and aura. Boris Kozlov will accompany him on the bass and Mark Taylor on the drums.

Lew Tabackin er en mester på jazzfløjte og tenorsaxofonen. Han er en kunstner, der besidder en forbløffende vision. Hans elektrificerende fløjtespil er på en gang virtuos og lidenskabelig. Hans karakteristiske tenorsax-stil omfatter brugen af brede intervaller, pludselige ændringer i humør og tempo, der formår at vise instrumenternes muligheder på melodisk, rytmisk og dynamisk vis. Lew Tabackin har uden tvivl skabt sin egen stil og sin egen lyd. Han vil blive akkompagneret af Boris Kozlov på bassen og Mark Taylor på trommerne.

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