Makaya McCraven – In The Moment (Vinyl) The Woods Despite living in an era

Despite living in an era when almost all music is available on tap

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A Fickle Sonance is a quintessential hard bop outing by Jackie McLean that also offered just a hint of the avant-garde explorations the alto saxophonist was about to embark on in the years to come with the dissonances of the title track’s intro

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five ballads from a 1955 session with Harry Edison and Benny Carter

Makaya McCraven – In The Moment (Vinyl) The Woods Despite living in an eraOne venue, 28 shows and 48 hours of live, improvised music. These are the ingredients for Chicago based drummer Makaya McCraven's album In the Moment. However, McCraven, as the producer he also is, has not just thrown some random sounds together. Instead, he has carefully culled, cut and remixed the music into a coherent whole and 19 complex and catchy compositions emerge from his hands. The meeting between completely fresh improvisations from some of