‘Scalding emotional intensity’: Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba
29-04-2024 11:46 via theguardian.com

‘Scalding emotional intensity’: Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba

Still only 23, the US saxophonist is channelling the free jazz pioneered by Albert Ayler in the 60s – and making hugely profound, wildly uplifting music Interviewed many years after the experience, Don Cherry said he would “never forget” the first time he heard the tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler. That was in Copenhagen in 1963.I’ll never forget the time I first heard Zoh Amba, last March, at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. A wealth of competing options at t
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