NEW YORK TIMES: At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More
NEW YORK TIMES: At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More
BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
“In duo with the drummer Gerald Cleaver on Friday night, the tenor saxophonist Travis Laplante used circular breathing to play repetitive, slowly morphing patterns that were both startling and hypnotic. Your ear echoed differently with every note, so that you ended up experiencing each cluster as a prism of many resonances, more than as a melody or a rhythm.”