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 | | If there’s a word that best describes Cooke’s approach, that word perhaps is “easygoing.” Nearly everything flows as smoothly as the water beneath that bridge on the album’s cover (which, by the way, is in Torino, Italy). |
 | | As is usually the case, Cooke’s resonant bass is most conspicuous on the slower numbers, “St. Stephen” and his fond tribute to Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker and the “West Coast” sound, “When Sunny Gets Blue” (on which he fashions one of his infrequent solos). |
 | | This is a respectable debut album for Cooke and his quintet, but one whose many pleasing moments are uninterrupted by the kind of electricity that causes one to react with unreserved excitement. |
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