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| | Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Fun raisers |
 | | Trumpeter Jon Hassell has for years occupied a unique place in the new music scene: not jazz, not contemporary classical, not rock, yet somehow stepping on the cracks in the luckiest way imaginable. |
 | | Hassell's album Maarifa Street: Magic Realism 2 (Label Bleu, £13.99) is made from live concerts in Montreal, Paris and Milan, with sidemen John Beasley (keys), Peter Freeman (bass) and Rick Cox (guitar), and guests Dhafer Youssef (voice and oud) and Paolo Fresu, who appears on the Milan version of Open Secret. |
 | | This duet for the two trumpeters, which Hassell calls "whispering in the dark", is the only track that hasn't been re-worked and overdubbed. |
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