Alex Sipiagin’ s style is distinguished for intricate)’ often fast paced melodies, executed with rare precision and elegant, sometimes deceptive phrasing. With a large range available on trumpet and flugelhorn, his improvised lines often span across one and a half octaves or more, heavily interjected by triadic arpeggios and chromatically connecting lines. He can be heard playing rather traditionally in one passage, phrasing linearly along the chord progressions, while breaking out of the line w...