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Chris Searle on Jazz: It's all groovy in Switzerland
Chico Freeman and Heiri Kaenzig
The Arrival
(Intakt CD 251)
IT’S A long way from Shytown and the jazz and blues-drenched shores of Lake Michigan to live in Biel, Switzerland. But it’s a journey that one of the great jazz saxophonists, Chico Freeman, has made.
It’s a blessing for European audiences certainly, and hearing Chico during the 2016 London Jazz Festival, it’s clear that he has lost none of his Chicago fire and free spirit.
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