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A Must Have

brian1lindsay | Nepean, Ontario Canada | 08/06/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The ongoing debate for the David Murray fan: shell out for some of these expensive imports and add to your ever growing Murray collection or not. In this case, this is one to get. First off, this one sounds unique in the Murray catalog (unlike a number of quite similar quartet recordings): there is a great band here of players not typically associated with Murray, including Ray Anderson (Trombone) and Anthony Davis (piano). Davis appeared on the great early Octet recordings by Murray, and contributes a couple of great songs. Anderson also contributes the one infectious track as well. There is also a barn storming opening "standard". Enjoyable from start to finish."