Australian Portrait. Music by Hindson, Batterham, Broadstock, Boyd, Smetanin, Zadro
HD Duo. Michael Duke, saxophones; David Howie, pianoClassical, New Music
Cala CACD77013
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Reviewed by Gordon Kerry, February 1st, 2016
It was, if memory serves, the late John Dankworth who described the soprano saxophone as ‘an ill woodwind that nobody blows any good’. That’s not, of course, true in the case of Dankworth himself, nor in that of Michael Duke. Duke’s Australian Portrait CD, made as half of the estimable HD Duo with pianist David… continue reading »
