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Title: everything here is better somewhere else
Review: There is one reason I do not like this album: the drumming of Roy Haynes. I am no drumming expert, but I know what sounds good to me. Elvin Jones sounds good, but he was unavailable to Trane at the time, so Haynes replaced him. Now, Haynes is supposed to be a great drummer, but his style clashes with Coltrane. Have you ever felt your heart kind of blip, as if there was a funny beat or a skipped beat? That is Haynes on this album. His snare drum sounds awful, and it keeps coming in at what sounds like the wrong moment. He utterly ruins I Want to Talk About You, which otherwise is every bit as beautiful as the verison on Live at Birdland. In fact, buy Live at Birdland instead of this record.
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