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Logan Strosahl/Nick Sanders: Prodigal Son

After a dozen years in Boston and New York jazz scene, Strosahl and Sanders are known to hook up frequently in innovative and wild treatments of jazz standards, baroque masterpieces, and kicking original works. Between them, Strosahl & Sanders have 7 CDs released on Sunnyside Records in a variety of ensembles that position them in the vanguard of a new eclectic jazz sensibility.
Strosahl is the son Pat & Judy Strosahl and has played saxophone since he first picked one up in 5th grade. After a middle and high-school career in the vibrant Seattle high school jazz band scene, Logan spent four years at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he met pianist Nick Sanders and formed an immediate (and long) term musical connection that has blossomed professionally and creatively ever since, including one release (Janus) that featured them together as a duo.
Sanders is a musical prodigy, trained in classical piano, but emerging from rich New Orleans jazz scene, who arrived at New England Conservatory a year earlier than Strosahl. He trained there with Fred Hersch one of the foremost modern jazz pianists who has continued his interest in Sanders by being a co-producer on two of the three Sanders Sunnyside releases.
The Strosahl/Sanders duo's distinctive musical footprint is an entertaining, wide-ranging taste and style, that has won rave reviews in the jazz press. It features music as distinct as French baroque, renaissance vocalizing, dissonant modern classical, as well as loving and fresh treatments of more traditional jazz, and just irresistible jazz balladry informed by improvised polyphony of the highest order.