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About five years ago it would have been difficult to believe that this description applied to John Klemmer's most recent albums. But Klemmer, the same John Klemmer who produced the revolutionary sounds of Waterfalls, is also the John Klemmer who has produced the sugary sweet sounds of Barefoot Ballet...
...easy-going nature of the new Klemmer need not have a negative connotation. He may have changed his post-Coltrane style into something far less driving. The sound, however, is still meaningful...
...Klemmer will be playing this Sunday at 8 p.m., in the Berklee Performance Center. There is an added bonus for the adventurous: Sommerville-Cambridge's favorite funny-man David Misch (no sarcasm, the guy is really a riot) will be on the case with a few pre-performance laughs...
...Klemmer is simply a prelude for the jazz festivities coming to the Hynes Auditorium on November 25-28. At that time Boston's largest hall will be the scene of some of the finest jazz ever to grace this city's stages...
...Klemmer's saxophone, of course, dominates each song and his solos are superlative. But the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and you're more conscious of an almost three-dimensional effect than of only the solos, only the melody. Barefoot Ballet envelops you and you stay wrapped...