Whenever I put on a Warne Marsh recording, I don't think of him as a jazz musician. Rather, I imagine the tenor saxophonist as an architect and that I'm looking at his designs rather than listening to musical notes. It's hard to explain. For me, when Marsh plays, I hear a firm grasp on geometric structure. There's a bold cubist feel to his improvisation…
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