Travis Laplante is quite the polymath — a composer, improviser, and saxophonist — he has led the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, as well as Subtle Degrees, his duo with drummer Gerald Cleaver, and is recognized as a composer of meticulous, long-form pieces.
His compositional skills are on full display in his latest release, a recording of two string quartets performed by the JACK Quartet, one of the most celebrated interpreters of modern classical music today.
With these string quartets, Laplante‘s role as composer is bolstered by his fascination with resonance. While reading W. A. Mathieu’s music theory book, The Harmonic Experience, Laplante was taken by a section at…

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