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Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson
Tuesday 25
The
following night, a rara avis: saxophonist Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson,
fronting a band comprising pianist Robert Mitchell, bassist Malcolm Creese,
drummer Richard Spaven and a highly promising newcomer, neat, thoughtful
guitarist Richard Rozze.
Starting with a ravishingly lovely visit to 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow', and continuing mainly in standards mode, Hawthorne-Nelson demonstrated that even the most familiar material, in the right hands, can be a springboard for passion-filled, personalised music-making of the first water.
He is known as a disciple of the Coltrane-inspired spiritual-quest school of saxophone playing (his alto sound pure, earnest, intensely communicative), and, like his great mentor, he is capable of affecting the heart and mind in equal proportions. Gigs such as this are, to lapse into cliché for a moment, what the Vortex is all about.
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