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Chris Wiesendanger Quartet: Urban Village
by Dan McClenaghan
The title of the disc, Urban Village evokes, what? Maybe some funk grooves, drum loops, seismic bass lines. But this is something different altogether. A quartet outing, Mark Turner's tenor sax and the rhythm section, on a laid-back session of languid, probing sounds that bring to mind Miles Davis's '58 Sessions more than anything else.The opener, Salvador" sounds like a cross between Miles and crew's On Green Dolphin Street" and the (on that particular record) Latin flavored Love ...
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