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“The material
of the Bolla Quartet will undoubtedly glue the buttocks of
jazz fans to the chair due to its musicality, approach,
thinking and sound which resemble legends. It becomes
immediately clear that something has started here. The
standards are soaked, not by an individual tone for now, but
by the tone of today’s tenorist giants like Joe Lovano,
Bennie Wallace, Branford Marsalis, James Carter, Joshua
Redman and Craig Handy as to how classics can be and must be
twisted without leaving the original values to oblivion. (…)
Improvement could be made on the structure of the pieces and,
some times, on the dynamics, but time and experience will
bring this. The question, therefore, is not about the
reality of finding a place for the 15-year old saxophonist,
but about what a hopeful teenager can do in Hungary to avoid
being stuck in the image of an “adroit little boy”. |