Avant today in One luv - track of the day - drawn from Grow to be released on Friday. Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler in recent years has become one of the most highly rated European improvisers and clearly, old news - for instance, listen to the pianist on Christian Lillinger's Open Form For Society Live - Draksler is a world class player. If you are into Kris Davis, Marilyn Crispell or Alexander Hawkins then certainly Draksler is in some kind of broad however general context idiomatically if not stylistically.
Draksler is in duo with a kindred spirit in Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva recording live in Copenhagen last year. Silva is a little Wadada Leo Smith like in the smears and fracturings delivered over the roiling ocean of sound from Draksler. The pair also worked together on 2015 album, This Love.
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