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AOKI HUNSINGER JARMAN : TRIO

an album of improvised music

drawing on free jazz, Asian and chamber music influences

"The music remains challenging and stimulating throughout and this strikes me as simply one of the most superb collections of music to come through the door in a long while."
jazzreview.com's Mark Gallo
(read full review here)

Tatsu Aoki Asian American jazz innovator upright bass

Robbie Lynn Hunsinger orchestral/experimental oboist oboe, English horn, sona, shenai, silver clarinet, alto and soprano sax

Joseph Jarman free jazz pioneer alto sax, flute and bass flute, bass clarinet, hand percussion

RELEASE DATE

January 28, 2003

Aoki Hunsinger Jarman: TRIO

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FROM THE LINER NOTES

By Carl Wilson of the Toronto Globe and Mail:

Think of this album as a new chapter added to Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino's 1972 masterpiece that imagines Marco Polo's descriptions to his patron Kublai Khan of the places he has seen on his journeys through Asia:

-an underground city where earth stands in for air, and people tunnel through the streets like worms;

-another raised on stilts above a forest, where the inhabitants travel by ladder and their feet never touch the ground;

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