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Title: Ohhh This One Went Bad
Review: Sometimes an artist gets tied up with a label that doesn't know what it's doing and tries to string together "stars." This is the 2nd collaboration that has gone awry in the Cecil annals. The first was a duet with Max Roach. Sadly, it was recorded too early into the tour and before Max, maybe the best drummer Cecil ever played with, had mastered CT's music. Momentum has the similar problems. Early into the recording you three guys lost. Dewey blowing something silly without much rhyme or reason. Elvin on a different path. CT gives in and just mocks the affair with a bunch of silly chords. Eventually, the music gets better, then worse. Momentum just should have never been released without a little more rehearsel, but that cost money so screw the art. The powers that be toss it out on a public that can be satisfied with nothing but a buncha notes in a mall anyway. Despite all the problems, it was probably a good seller, but obviously not enough to keep in print.
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