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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Scott Hamilton & Toni Solà Quintet

Jan 24–25, 2020
Plaça Reial, 17, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Is it tenor madness if the method is blithely mainstream? When it swings as gleefully as this, the answer has to be yes. Trading fours transatlantically, but at close quarters, the suave American and his equally nimble Catalan pal offer the sort of old-school saxfest that might have had Zoot Sims and Ben Webster standing them drinks. —E.E.