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Hot was composed in 1989, ordered by the Association of French Saxophonists and dedicated to Daniel Kientzy. The piece is 'imaginary' jazz and, apart from the soloist, uses a B flat clarinet with an E flat soprano clarinet, a tenor-bass trombone, a piano, a double bass and a percussionist. Using a method dear to the author in his experience of writing, there is no immediate evidence of gestures belonging to the memory of an 'improvised' instrumental practice modulated by the imagination. Hot for saxophone and chamber ensemble, by Franco Donatoni, 'imaginary jazz' (as the author calls it), superb work, very structured and with an inventive rhythm…
