Geof Bradfield - Melba!Neil Tesser. Chicago saxophonist and composer Geof Bradfield immersed himself in box after box of Melba Liston's scores at Columbia College's Center for Black Music to deepen his appreciation of her work and perhaps lead to a project that would raise her profile. With a CMA grant in hand Bradfield went on to create this six part suite tracing Liston's wide ranging career with a blazing septet including Jeff Parker Ryan Cohen and Victor Garcia. the

20 tracks spanning their five-decade career on standard weight black vinyl (2 LP)

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It's essentially about my life and the pain and beauty in it

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a disciple of Claude Debussy

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Johann Rosenmüller's vocal oeuvre is distinguished by textual interpretation that is just as finely sensitive as it is highly imaginative - and this manifoldness is nowhere so clearly revealed as in the seven settings of Psalm 31 (after Luther's numbering) that have been transmitted to us under his name and form the program on this album

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