Friday 5 March 2004

AROS

Rob Armus-tenor saxophone, Marion von Tilzer-piano, Adrain P. Longo-trumpet, Anne Wood-violin, Sven Schuster-double bass, Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves-drums

‘A window into a rich and foreign land, free from the stylistic barriers and boundaries that constrain lesser musical imaginations’, is what the Vancouver Sun wrote. And indeed, the international Amsterdam sextet revolving around Von Tilzer and Armus refers to old and new jazz, impressionism, progressive rock, West African percussion and gamelan in their own style, in which the compositions are on the same high level of quality as the solos are.

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