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Stretches that sound dense and chaotic on a recording reveal themselves to be careful and collaborative, everyone listening closely to whomever is soloing, guiding one another through the swells of noise with a quick nod.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2018

When one brother is soloing, the other supports with spare staccato lines, trills or counterlines.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2014