Matt Otto - RedFor his 5th recording as a leader, Los Angeles based saxophonist Matt Otto teams up with old friends from his years spent in New York to explore a set of 8 originals. Now a regular in Los Angeles clubs, he can be seen around town with Anthony Wilson and Alan Pasqua, and touring with his own quartet. In the tradition of Wayne Shorter, Joe Lovano, and Joe Henderson, Otto's close musical relationship with his bandmates allows for music with depth and

" simply because it seemed funny to bestow a human name upon a record

performs a program of works by the great composer and violinist Fritz Kreisler

especially on the "Night Train" and the loner-themed "I Don't Know The Answer"

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The Suite Ancienne (1933) is different in character: a collection of dances like a Baroque suite (Prelude

which is a version of the overture of his Die Gezeichneten

based on the team's performances of the Fourth and Fifth symphonies

Rudy points to The Velvet Underground and The Kinks for direct inspiration

not reduced to the sole function of basso continuo

the album takes the listener on a sublime journey through the inner depths of the human psyche to the outer reaches of the cosmos

John Peel declared Reek of Putrefaction his favorite album of 1988

Goetz was an old friend of Frank Sinatra's and was able to convince the Chairman to star in and co-produce the film under Sinatra Enterprises