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HUDSON CITY
SCOTT HEALY/GLENN ALEXANDER QUARTET/Northern Light:

Essentially, a one take improv session from Healy’s tyro years recorded just as good fortune was smiling on him and his pals and technology was changing enough to relegate these masters to the back of the closet because the time and ambition to transfer them to some new media wasn’t in evidence. Recorded in 1991 just outside the 1991 lines, with a little outside help and guidance, this could have been an important session for ECM as they were then going through a period of being pissed off about being compared to Windham Hill. A nice example of thinking man’s jazz from another time and place that doesn’t sound dated.

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11/26/12