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Sound & Vision
Reissues of historic free jazz from South African legends the Blue Notes, increasingly sophisticated compositional gambits from virtuoso guitarist Mary Halvorson, finely-tuned intuition from a quartet led by drummer Ches Smith, and solo saxophone evocations of Maria Faust’s childhood memories of an Estonian castle are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music