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A versatile bassist with a specific flair for the avant-garde, Tag Helias can be an underappreciated composer, no slouch having a funk groove either. Helias was created in Brunswick, N.J., in 1950, and didn’t start playing bass until age group 20; nevertheless, he finished up learning music at Yale, graduating …

Inspired by artists which range from John Coltrane and Archie Shepp to Roscoe Mitchell (amongst others), Tony Malaby is really a probing tenor saxophonist who’s more comfortable with both outside and inside playing. A few of Malaby’s function has been extremely avant-garde and still left of middle, although he has …