Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on 'In Common 2'

Two of the top players in modern jazz make the second in a sequence of quintet recordings that presents jazz as unusually easy to love even as it maintains modern complexity.

                                      
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Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on 'In Common 2'

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