Derrek Taylor AAJazz review for TUBA PROJECT”

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Derrek Taylor AAJazz review for TUBA PROJECT”

“Several years have elapsed since Lucian Ban and Alex Harding’s last CIMP collaboration, but their artistic rapport has only deepened in the interim. Their latest project carries a signifier that stresses the novelty of the instrumentation. The duo dispenses with string bass completely. In its stead, Bob Stewarts’ bulbous, bell-shaped horn sits as co-resident of the bottom end, right alongside Harding’s heavyweight sax. Stewart slides naturally into the brass bass role standard to early-20th Century street bands, but also steps into the foreground with an advanced technique well suited to soloing when the occasion arises …..