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Mark Helias and Open Loose

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Best Jazz of 2006

Will Layman's list of the year's best jazz records, a hearty baker's dozen, includes iconoclasts, eccentrics, avant-gardists, and some downright swingers. [11 December 2006]

Reviews

Mark Helias and Open Loose: Atomic Clock

Tenor-bass-drums play every which way jazz can go in a session to match the best of 2006. [11 December 2006]

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