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Feb 25, 2013This music's structural latticework is often on display, but the playing mostly floats blissfully free of it.
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Feb 25, 2013The result is an album of exploratory jazz that is often more about group interplay on various musical themes rather than straightforward improvisation on melodic compositions--though there is that, too.
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Feb 25, 2013Cross Culture is strongest when it goes straight at the jazz tradition.
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Feb 25, 2013Mr. Lovano is taking a step back from the material of jazz and looking at its motivating forces; implicitly, he’s asking why we make it in the first place. As long as the question lingers in your head, the album works. When the music slackens, and the tension dissipates, the question goes away.
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Feb 25, 2013Saxophonist Lovano's third album with his two-drummer quintet is a very mixed affair.