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"""John was one of my favorite saxophone players. I always found his musical voice very original."" - Archie Shepp ""Tchicai, pronounced 'cheek-eye', is sax's great Dane, whose playing suggests the secretive smile of someone who knows something strange but good..."" - Richard C.Walls, The Boston Phoenix ""This book is both biography and missive, an embrace of the true essence of music, be it jazz or opera - to heal and to reveal."" - Thurston Moore ""Tchicai could build an improvisation with the rigor of a composer and write compositions that catapult the improviser into fresh territory."" - Charlie Kohlhase"

John was one of my favorite saxophone players. I always found his musical voice very original. - Archie Shepp Tchicai, pronounced 'cheek-eye', is sax's great Dane, whose playing suggests the secretive smile of someone who knows something strange but good... - Richard C.Walls, The Boston Phoenix This book is both biography and missive, an embrace of the true essence of music, be it jazz or opera - to heal and to reveal. - Thurston Moore Tchicai could build an improvisation with the rigor of a composer and write compositions that catapult the improviser into fresh territory. - Charlie Kohlhase

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Margriet Naber is a musician, astrologer and mindfulness teacher from the Netherlands. She was married to and collaborated with John Tchicai for 20 years. In 2006 she published her CD ""Colored Air"".

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