
Four years ago, at the Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle bassist
Michael Bisio played a luminous concert at the University of Washington. It was just a month after the twin towers had come down, so there was a somber, yet spiritually revitalizing mood to the evening. Bisio and his band mates — wind player Joe McPhee and French guitarist Raymond Boni — offered the music as a dual "remembrance," of the New York tragedy and of McPhee's father, who had died a few years earlier.
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