tenor saxophonist David Newman
The Leunig Fragments
A concept album to end all concepts
The album contained a variety of musical elements including soul
shadows and forecasts of tomorrow disguised as free jazz
François Tusques - Dazibao n°2 LP xx1994 tenor saxophonist David NewmanThis was of course not the first time that Franois Tusques was a headline act. In 1965, he recorded, with other likeminded Frenchmen (Franois Jeanneau, Michel Portal, Bernard Vitet, Beb Gurin and Charles Saudrais), the first album of free jazz in France, named Free Jazz. In 1967, Tusques again served up Le Nouveau Jazz, in the company of Barney Wilen (and Beb Gurin, Jean Franois Jenny Clark, and Aldo Romano). Three years later, between May and