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Blown away
CHRIS SEARLE is transported by a combative fusion of US and UK instrumentalists and landmark evening of jazz

Darius Jones, John Edwards and Steve Noble
Cafe Oto, London

 

A HOT, hot Sunday night in downtown Dalston, made even hotter at the Cafe Oto with the boiling sound of Darius Jones’s alto saxophone, straight from the heat of the USA.

Jones, born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1978 and now a Professor of Music at Wesleyan College, Connecticut, was playing in a superfine trio with two British nonpareils, bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble. And how they coalesced! Their notes bestrode the ocean, as a certain Elizabethan groover might have written, as if no geographical gulf or barrier can stop the free passage of hot music.

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