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$17.00

Title: Plaza de Toros
Label: Clean Feed (dist. Cadence)
Artist: James Finn
UPC: 5609063000344
Cat.#: CF034CD
Genre: Jazz
Release type: New
Comments: There are so many warning signs here: a pianoless trio (sax, bass, drums); a Concept (the bullfight); an obvious attempt at jazz tone poetry. And yet it works, because leader and saxophonist James Finn plays with both fierce intensity and sharp clarity of mind. Yes, his approach and the instrumentation both bring to mind Ornette Coleman, but Finn is his own man with his own (some will say better) sound. Worth hearing. (To order, go to the Cadence Music Distributing website at http://tinyurl.com/absdu.)