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Title: What a drag, man
Review: I have to throw my vote in behind the "obsessive reviewer", whose criticisms of this album are spot-on. Sal Mosca, despite a legend burnished by reclusiveness, couldn't touch the hem of Lennie Tristano's robes, never once achieving the almost levitating quality that Tristano always did when soloing on this material. There's none of the exhilarating uplift. Indeed, this only gets an extra star for Konitz, whose probity is undiminished. But he's pulling all the weight here, and it's heavy work.
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