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Janus

Janus

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In ancient Roman mythology, Janus was the god of time, passageways, beginnings and endings. With his two diametrically opposed faces, he looked simultaneously backwards and forwards in time. Janus is thus an ideal title for the new duo recording by pianist Nick Sanders and saxophonist Logan Strosahl, which mines centuries of compositions to create music entirely of the present moment. The pair also share a unique chemistry, honed over nearly a decade of working together, that echoes Janus in its suggestion of two voices sharing one mind.Janus will be released on October 14, 2016 via Sunnyside Records, almost ten years after Sanders and Strosahl began playing duo in the basement of the dorms at Boston s New England Conservatory, where both were students. The album features an intriguing mix of material, from medieval, Baroque and 20th-century French composers through bebop and Songbook standards to witty and inventive original pieces. That stunning range of repertoire is not intended to show off the pair s musical knowledge, encyclopedic though it may be. It s simply a collection of songs, both insist, that they found appealing and that sparked imaginative improvisation. Genre isn t crucial, Strosahl says. What s crucial is improvisation. Even though we re working with music that represents different styles, they re really all from the same canon. They re all Western music and we re filtering all of it through ourselves. Genres have been artificially broken up, so we re just trying to take a larger, simpler and clearer view. That broadened perspective allowed Strosahl and Sanders to find just as much territory to explore in a romantic 14th-century rondeau by Guillaume de Machaut as in the acute modernist corners of Monk s Thelonious or in their own playful, co-composed Be-Bop Tune, which distorts the revered jazz language as through a funhouse mirror
Product details
Release Date:
2022-06-28
Publication Date:
2016-10-14
Publisher:
GoodToGo GmbH / Köln
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
0016728146920
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