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On the album, he plays "Bird Yard" (a variation on "Yardbird Suite") on the alochrome, a recent French invention that looks and sounds like two sopranos playing at once; at the Vanguard, he played it on the G mezzo soprano (a horn so new that the serial number on Mr. Lovano's model is "2"), pitched a minor third lower than the traditional B-flat instrument.
Shaking the Room Will Friedwald 2011
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