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...The performance begins with Lloyd’s elegiac reading of Billy Strayhorn’s “Blood Count”, written in 1967 shortly before the composer’s death....
...Bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston have been touring with the guitarist for two years, and the trio’s sensitive interplay and attention to detail are now unrivalled in jazz....
...But the festival coup is the late-night gig by American clarinettist Don Byron, here presenting his Gospel Quintet, homage to the gospel songwriting pioneer Thomas A. Dorsey....
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