Laconic Pentatonic

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Composed by
Amos Elkana
Instrument(s)
alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
With electronics
no
Work premiered
September 2010
Venue of the premiere
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)
Duration
6 minutes

In 2018 I had an inspiring recording session of my 3rd saxophone quartet "Laconic Pentatonic" with the fantastic Tel Aviv Saxophone Quartet - רביעיית הסקסופונים של תל אביב. After the session was over we still had half an hour to spare in the recording studio so I suggested they improvise freely on the first theme. I asked them to improvise in a style that is to them somewhere between Coltrane and Lachenmann and I asked Yaron Aldema to continue recording the whole time. I was so happy with the result that I added it as an integral part of the work. Enjoy.