O'Gallagher, John * Ancestral [New LP] 2025-09-19 Taking Pictures

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Research that was begun several years ago on questions of performance practice has now been complemented by their intensive work on the score and the division of roles

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O'Gallagher, John * Ancestral [New LP] 2025-09-19 Taking Pictures'Ancestral' marks a profound metamorphosis for master saxophonist John O'Gallagher. He cast off his old skin, fundamentally altering his studies, homeland, and life, thereby charting a new future. Recorded at Sound on Sound Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, in January, 2024, 'Ancestral' was influenced, in part, by O'Gallagher's PhD studies into the music of John Coltrane, and reunites the versatile reeds player with guitarist Ben Monderwhile, notably,