Saturday night, there’s a whole lotta saxophone going on at the Chit Chat Café. With their show titled “Duke and Norm – Just Duet,” Duke Hardcastle and Norm Dutton, both on alto sax, will be bringing ...
I was playing piano in public when someone asked if I could play “Careless Whisper”. Moments later, he joined in with his ...
Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...
Whittled down to twin instrumental poles, there can be a temptation to fill the yawning gaps between. However the best duets are those which take the less traveled path, taut without undue rhetoric, ...