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Putting a finer point on their improvisational stance, the members of France’s Marteau Rouge reunited after a nine-year gap and extended the group equation by adding the distinctive tone of tenor saxophonist Daunik Lazro.Lazro, a French Free Jazz pioneer, who has recorded with everyone from Joëlle Léandre to Joe McPhee as well as individual Marteau Rouge players, amplifies the interaction with characteristic reed extensions ranging from the febrile to the fixed. Meanwhile drummer Makoto Sato,… Read More