After a few minutes some closely recorded cymbals skittered into life. With little warning a tenor saxophone aggressively asserted itself. The saxophone player and the drummer began to improvise with the sort of discordant tones suggestive of protracted marital breakdown; a guitarist, presumably located in a building adjacent to his fellow musicians, began gamely attacking his instrument with, it was fair to assume, a hammer. Richard King in Original Rockers, listening to a CD 'by an ominous pan-European sounding trio of free-jazz journeymen'.
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
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