With her flatmate off playing a gig, she had the apartment to herself for the night. She’d spent her childhood studying classical piano, culminating in four years at the New England Conservatory, before she married and disengaged from music entirely for six years. Now here she was in 1975, with…
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Johnston St Jazz, July 30 9/10 It all comes down to sound. Even when streamed rather than live, you hear a life-force fermenting in Matt Ottignon’s tenor saxophone that can rear up like a tsunami or melt like chocolate. Not merely a matter of commanding the keys and mouthpiece, the…