Li Gao Yang: Locks, Stock and Smoking Barrel

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With dreadlocks tumbling over his shoulders, Li Gao Yang already cuts a striking figure. When he's on stage blowing his tenor saxophone and leading his quartet with quiet assurance, the impact is all the greater. Chinese jazz stars are few and far between, at home or abroad, but already this unassuming musician from Beijing has appeared on television and made the Chinese press on numerous occasions. He's also had the honor of opening both the Hong Kong international Jazz Festival 2011 and the Ninegates Jazz Festival in Beijing in September, 2012. There's a good reason for all the attention, because Li plays the saxophone with an authority all too rare in someone of just 18 years of age...

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