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Title: Fancy free?
Review: A previously quite rare 1972 free jazz date that compares interestingly with Interstellar Space, Ali's earlier and better-known duo with John Coltrane. Ali plays similarly on both, producing a constantly changing stream of complex rhythms, the basic pulse implied rather than stated. Lowe's tenor doesn't have Coltrane's power and intensity but his less unrelenting, more varied approach has its own attractions and taps into a wider tenor tradition. There is no great sense of Ali and Lowe listening to, and feeding off, one another. Rather, they manage to do their own things without getting in one another's way. But they do it superbly and if you're into free jazz grab this record before it disappears again.
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