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Music

Santoro, Gene | March 7, 1994 issue

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When multireedman Marty Ehrlich, now one of the most accomplished composer-musicians of his generation, was a teenager in Saint Louis, alto saxist Julius Hemphill came through town. Succinctness is one hallmark of the far-reaching body of work that Hemphill has amassed over the past twenty-odd years of recording and performing. Though he has a formidable conceptual musical mind, he's avoided the more abstract explorations some of his peers have found so appealing. Instead, he uses his marvelous gift for lyricism to leaven even his earthiest or most avant-garde, noise-perforated outings.

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EHRLICH, Marty; HEMPHILL, Julius; ARTISTS; LYRICISM (Music); MUSICIANS; MUSIC
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