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Written in fRoots issue 240, 2003
SUTARAS + VILNIUS JAZZ QUARTET
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Kuku SMF 016 (2002)
Healthy collision between leading Lithuanian traditional band and jazz quartet.
As yet, though, the interesting moments are largely Sutaras’; the jazzers seem
to be generally just noodling along to the trad sections before blowing US-ish
jazz, not to have really got inside the folk themes to expand on the new
opportunities presented. www.sutaras.lt
© 2003 Andrew Cronshaw
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