Big Gigantic Jazz

n 2016, the Colorado-based tenor saxophonist Dominic Lalli stood onstage at Lollapalooza, playing thick, funky lines with his electronic-music act Big Gigantic. Red Hot Chili Peppers played the same night; Radiohead performed the evening prior. Most jazz musicians do not find themselves in this position. But Lalli is nothing if not versed in the ways of swing, and it shows on A Blind Man’s Blue, the first jazz LP from