Title: Another Uninspired Blowing Session
Review: I have tremendous respect for Donald Byrd, Sonny Clark, Curtis Fuller, George Joyner, and Art Taylor, but this particular session with alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson is very uninspired. Every musician has good days and bad days and unfortunately this was one of the bad days. There's really nothing melodic, harmonic, or rhythmically interesting about this recording. It just sounds like one person taking turns blowing a bunch of nonsense. All of the musicians can blow, but just because you can blow, doesn't mean you should do it all the time. The best jazz musicians build improvisations based on little themes and ideas that happened in a composition's main melody.
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