Nick Sanders & Logan Strosahl – Janus (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:46 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Jazz
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In ancient Roman mythology, Janus was the god of time, passageways, beginnings and endings. With his two diametrically opposed faces, he looked simultaneously backwards and forwards in time. Janus is thus an ideal title for the new duo recording by pianist Nick Sanders and saxophonist Logan Strosahl, which mines centuries of compositions to create music entirely of the present moment. The pair also share a unique chemistry, honed over nearly a decade of working together, that echoes Janus in its suggestion of two voices sharing one mind.
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Logan Strosahl – Sure (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:57 minutes | 867 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Saxophonist and composer Logan Strosahl has increasingly been involved in the myriad worlds of formal composition. His study of pre-1700’s and contemporary composition has led his music far from his musical roots in jazz music. That isn’t to say that jazz had been usurped; on the contrary, Strosahl’s new recording, Sure, by his new ensemble, Spec Ops, is a vital reflection of his continued engagement with the tradition and future of that music.
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Logan Strosahl – Book II of Arthur: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:30 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Arthurian tales have captured the imaginations of artists for centuries. In the late 12th-century, the floodgates of Medieval Arthurian literature burst open, and across Western Europe, works about the fictional deeds of individual knights of the Round Table were written. These were tales of mistaken identity, switched births, giants, ceremonial duels, and forbidden love, that portrayed the different knights as flawed upholders of what came to be known as the Chivalric Code.
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