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‘You have to embrace the unknown’
Jazz saxophonist TRISH CLOWES tells Chris Searle why she and her band My Iris are so open to experiment
Lung-power: Trish Clowes in action
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“A TON of ideas for new tunes,” was one of the positives of Trish Clowes’s 2017 tour with her band My Iris.
Those tunes are there on her fifth album Ninety Degrees Gravity, the result of “a lot of back and forth” between her and guitarist Chris Montague, drummer James Maddren and Ross Stanley on piano and organ. “We allow the music to evolve, there’s so much scope for different sound-worlds,” she says.
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