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...John Klemmer...
...musician turns out to be John Klemmer, the album's called Barefoot Ballet and the devotee's cradling a bottle of lukewarm wine and curled up on a red plastic sit-sack. You've never seen any of them before but the music brightens the small hours...
Three o'clock the following afternoon brings the real test. Shut out the sound of your room-mate's typewriter and listen again. John Klemmer's jazz sounds even better the second time around. Like George Harrison's song, "Way back in time someone said try some, I tried some. Now buy some. I bought some..." And his 1975 album, Touch, is well on the way to gold status now so I can't be the only...
...Touch was more than the fusing of various musical impulses into an easy-to-listen-to commercial package. Klemmer's exploration of what he calls "the sensual flow of sound" is original. He began as a rock jack-of-all-trades and moved gradually towards combining rock and jazz, convinced that "Jazz has to be re-established as a popular music... because of its emotional and intellectual depth." His sound is unique. It doesn't pretend to imitate the "greats." Instead it draws from sources from rock to classical, from jazz to pop, and the finished product is rich, carefully...
...Jazz Workshop has booked saxophonist John Klemmer for two shows nightly at 8:30 p.m. and II p.m., Friday and Saturday. Klemmer is an exciting performer with a driving, plangent sound--one of the deepest, but often the most electrical, tenors playing. His latest album, Touch, has mellowed a bit from Waterfall. Some even contend that the songs can't know, I like the album from each other. I don't know, I like the album alot--ion any case, he's definitely worth seeing...