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Playing around with nature's soundtrack

Jason Davis, an environmental researcher and classically trained bassist, incorporates the sounds of nature into straight-ahead jazz and Latin rhythms. Jason Davis, an environmental researcher and classically trained bassist, incorporates the sounds of nature into straight-ahead jazz and Latin rhythms. (Cassandra Seda)
By Siddhartha Mitter
Globe Correspondent / February 1, 2008

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Jazz and the great outdoors aren't commonly associated with each other, but for bassist and bandleader Jason Davis, they've been the twin poles of an emerging career that's as much - pardon the pun - about timber as it is about timbre. (Full article: 695 words)

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