Everything Is Connected: for tenor saxophone and double bass

Anthony Brown (tenor saxophone and commissioner) Grant Russell (double bass).
An evolving dialogue between sax and bass sees them seeking common agency. Sometimes this is discursive, sometimes argumentative. Often the strategy is role play and imitation; the bass might attempt to occupy the saxophone register or inflection whilst the saxophone, for example, might attempt a bass technique like ‘pizzicato’. Slap tongue for the sax and hitting the belly of the bass become analogues of each other. Sometimes they find common ground through rhythmic or melodic unisons - and sometimes they don’t! But in the end, everything is connected…