An esoteric system and guru status among musicians makes for an easy target in today's niche-driven market. Terms like musician's musician and classicist start getting thrown around as a way to commodify and explain away public indifference. This, luckily, is a non-issue for George Garzone. The veteran saxophonist has avoided pigeonholing his entire career, letting his emotionally resonant music speak for itself. “We never put in any boundaries on the music," said the saxophonist of his longstanding group The Fringe on a break between classes at the New School, “F@*k it, we just go for it."
AAJ contributor Matthew Miller paints a picture of Garzone as an uncompromising but completely committed artist, who sees equal value in the free zone as he does the mainstream, as long as it's in the pursuit of something personal.
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