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Title: Good take on the classics
Review: Paul Motian assembles a talented group of mostly younger (at the time) players to tackle jazz classics. There may be a thousand other jazzmen who've had the same idea, but the interesting thing about this one is the use of two guitar players. Kurt Rosenwinkel's profile has gotten higher recently, and I've not heard anything about Wolfgang Muthspiel, but he plays well here. Chris Cheek and Chris Potter play sax, & Steve Swallow & Don Alias round out the rhythm section. The three originals aren't very notable, but this group does nice work on songs by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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