Expanding the Gravitational Pull: Jason Robinson’s Blue Salience Honors the Multidimensional Legacy of Yusef Lateef
Executive Overview For over fifteen years, saxophonist, composer, and academic Jason Robinson has charted an idiosyncratic course through contemporary improvised music. Working with ensembles possessing unconventional architectural centers of gravity—such as the Janus Ensemble, which famously omitted traditional front-line instruments like trumpets and pianos in favor of a heavy low-end foundation featuring a tuba, bass … Read more
