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‘Burlap Heroes are Saul Bellow’s persons struggling just to exist’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks with US trumpeter NATE WOOLEY
Nate Wooley [Schorle/CC]

WHEN I heard the iconoclastic trumpeter Nate Wooley play at Dalston’s Cafe Oto in September I was drawn into his horn sounds, sometimes clear and icy, other times muffled, snorting and growl-toned.

I asked him about his new album Ancient Songs Of Burlap Heroes with the Columbia Icefield sextet.

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