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I have the music on vinyl, purchased sometime in the early 90s. It features the young Bill Frisell. This collection shows Motian`s generally unacknowledged compositional talent for what it is: a unique vision of poetic delicacy. In Jazz composition the choice of players and how they are directed or left free is part of the composer`s process, and the ensemble here is brilliantly chosen and deployed, exhibiting psychic intertwining of sound.
This was Motian's fifth album as leader, and introduced his then-new quintet - Joe Lovano and Billy Drewes on saxophones (Drewes would be replaced by Jim Pepper on later albums), Bill Frisell on guitar, and Ed Schuller on bass. Unlike the Motian-Lovano-Frisell trio's later, more austere work, the dual saxophones as well as Frisell's lush, effects-heavy guitar fill a lot of sonic space. The compositions are all over the map - you have "White Magic" which flat out rocks, the slightly corny calypso "Mandeville", and then other pieces that that are more typically Motianish. The top highlights are a pair of tunes that first appeared on the Keith Jarrett album Byablue and are given superior interpretations here - the haunting "Yahllah" and "Etude". This is not the quintet's best album, but it's worth hearing.
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