Where to begin listening to the brilliant, prolific avant-garde saxophonist-composer
This article originally appeared as a sidebar to the June issue’s Vandermark profile by Tad Hendrickson.
Fred Anderson & DKV Trio
Fred Anderson & DKV Trio (Okka Disk, 1997)
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