ESSAYS
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Yunior Terry & Carl Mackey
BASS PLAYERS YUNIOR TERRY AND SIMON STARR SEXTETS
by Ian Muldoon
August 8, 2025
Pascal pops into my head at the oddest times. Most recently August 2, 2025 at a Jazzlab gig listening to a sextet out of synch. But more on that later. The previous night of August 1, same venue, a full full house was gifted with a display of gobsmacking artistic brilliance from a sextet completely in synch, with each other, with the audience, and with the muses. "It was a night, ooh oh, what a night it was, it really was such a night” sang I, disappearing down Leslie Street, Brunswick around 11pm mauling Elvis Presley. Yunior Terry Cabrera, known professionally by his christian names alone, is a professor of music who has taught at academies and universities in India, Australia, Canada and the USA including the Berklee College of Music…