Josh Johnson plays the saxophone like an orchestra in this third solo album, Animative. That will surprise no one who’s seen his live shows, frenetic, ebullient displays of the power of live looping, as one sax riff echoes another and another. Nimble, pointillistic “Idiophone” which starts off the album, juggles reed and electronic sounds like a circus plate spinner, a cerebral abstraction one moment, a funk-syncopated fusion dream the next . . .
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