Raphael Rogiński / Sarah Hughes

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Polish guitarist and composer Raphael Rogiński performs interpretations of works by John Coltrane, accompanied by musical reflections on the poetry of Langston Hughes. The project features solo performance by Rogiński on electric guitar, fusing elements blues, jazz, world music and improvisation. Maryland-based saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Hughes is a potent improviser with ears that amplify her creativity, as likely to light up a club with serious swing as she is to delight audiences with thunderbolts of free expression. Her experimental style, grounded in free improvisation, contains notes of blues, standards and modal jazz, playing around with abstract noise and stillness while also delivering stirring and meditative melodies.