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Title: flutin' and alludin'
Review: The price tag is a bit too much for an album originally released in 1964, but the tasteful packaging and remastering almost justify the price. The music hits most of Roland's (later Rahsaan's) fortes: swinging blues, spatious and haunting pentatonic originals, appropriations of tunes from a wide body of music, including world music; and his postmodern take on jazz history. The only tune that falls flat is "A Quote from clifford Brown" - with an expressive artist like Kirk, straight modern bop tends to fence in the artist's talents.
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