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Title: Disappointing coming from Murray
Review: David Murray has always been one of my favorite musicians, but this album came as a bit of a disappointment. Where is the fire of his organ quartet w/ Don Pullen? Where is the grace and passion of his octet? Where is, well, anything? This is not David Murray the avant-garde genuis. There are some interesting sounds here, but it seems more like a bad experiment with commercial music than a music explosion like "New Life," or "The Hill." The good news is that there is not a dearth of fantastic material by Murray out there, so the barrel is too big to be ruined by one or two less-than-fresh apples.
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