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Alan Lewine’s Azxtet at The Nash
Courtesy of Lorene Ely | Posted on February 28, 2022
When
Fri, March 25, 2022
7:30 pm
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Alan Lewine’s AZXtet [sometimes THE ALAN LEWINE XTET] presents some of the finest players in Arizona playing an exciting mix of hard-hitting jazz drawing on the entire history of the genre, with an emphasis on the 3 Big Ms: Mingus, Monk and Morton (Jelly Roll) – M cubed – M3 – with a heavy emphasis on the sound of the Mingus ensembles of the early-mid-sixties in this his centennial year. The Xtet performs many original compositions and covers of classics with an original take or arrangement. The Xtet draws on the classic jazz sound of the 60s, with reference to the tradition of simultaneous improvisation that characterized the early days of the music and the African roots that helped to spawn it...