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| | Bagatellen: Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin' (Blue Note) |
 | | Clark sounds completely at one with his instrument here, in the flow -- in the zone -- as if, as I think it is possible to do, he has seduced himself into true discipline. |
 | | The Clark / Duvivier / Roach trio is particularly valuable too in that the program consists entirely of Clark originals (something he had heretofore not attempted), several of which were re-arranged for the quintets documented on MY CONCEPTION. |
 | | One of the reasons I have always loved this record, though, is that Clark, for much of his recording career something of a nondescript, "professional" accompanist, managed to make a quintessential Blue Note album that nonetheless breaks -- rather, elides -- many of that specific "sound's" formulas. |
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