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New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's "harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the music for something new.

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Now living in the USA, Arto has performed and recorded with an array of outstanding jazz and world music artists, including popular Greek artists such as Eleftheria Arvanitaki, as well as the Spanish guitarist Gerardo Nuñez, and Joe Zawinul, Al Di Meola,

Sean Nowell (tenor saxophone) with bassist Thomson Kneeland, cellist David Eggar, and guitarist Nir Felder.

Blues guitarist-singer B.B. King and "Hootenanny" folk singer Mary Travers (Peter, Paul, and Mary) sing "House of the Rising Sun" as a conversation. I don't think Mary "gets it." Her voice drags, seems dead, unconvincing, overly romantic. Strange. B,B.'s okay ~ at least when his fingers are walkin' and Lucille's doin' the talking, Odd. Corny. Worth a listen.