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” data-original-title title>Alexa Torres goes about her debut disc, the hugely confident, ear and eye opening In Situ, with an inquisitive gusto and aplomb that belies her thirty-one years.
A skilled, peer-reviewed ethnographic researcher, Torres is also the first woman and first violinist to graduate from the University of North Texas jazz strings program. And she brings a wide open palette to the proceedings. Knowing through science and instinct, study and practice, that any particular piece of song, of style, of flavor and flourish works to create the whole panoramic story. In Situ is full of grand histories.
Take for instance the very first track,
Wayne Shorter
saxophone
1933 – 2023
(Blue Note, 1965). By its title alone, it appears cut and dry enough to convince any jury. But Torres’ muse is swirling from the get-go. And it is infectious from the get-go. So, not wanting the lady to have all the fun, Fender Rhodes sounding guitarist