Hilary Noble

Hilary Noble is a Boston-based saxophonist, percussionist, composer, and producer who has one foot in post-bop and modal jazz and the other in Latin jazz -- mostly Afro-Cuban jazz, although he has also acknowledged Latin forms that range from Dominican merengue to Venezuelan joropo. Noble likes to call his music "Latin free jazz," but his debut album, Noble Savage, isn't free jazz in the way that Albert Ayler, Charles Gayle, Cecil Taylor, and Ornette Coleman are free jazz. Noble Savage isn't an album of atonal playing but rather, combines melodic post-bop with Afro-Cuban rhyt...