Lao Dan - Live At Willimantic Records AEC Video They were also talented pianists

They were also talented pianists and created a variety of brilliant music for the piano

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Together the musicians dedicate themselves to chamber music of the 17th and 18th century whose Old Masters they explore over and over with boundless curiosity

Lao Dan - Live At Willimantic Records AEC Video They were also talented pianistsThis is the American debut release from Lao Dan, China's emerging free player on bamboo flute, suona and alto saxophone. Dan's voice is starkly unique, even among the blurred lines of international Improv Jazz. He's steeped in native traditions yet eagerly obliterates those boundaries with ecstatic intensity and haunting melodies. His dense reedy, drones and jagged melodic shrieks are described as a "Whitmanian yawp," by Marc Medwin in the liner