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The Harry Watters Quartet: Love Songs. Recorded in 2004, at Bias Studios. Engineer: Bob Dawson. 56+ minutes. Summit 411.

To be truthful, while this CD release deals with love themes, the way they are treated is more like traditional, low-key jazz than bedroom music. The performance is good, and Watters does know how to massage that trombone of his. The music here is truly enjoyable, in contrast to some of the music-faculty stuff Summit regularly sends to me to review.

Overall, the sound is on the dry side, but well imaged and spread out wide enough to let you know that the performers are not all lined up in a row behind the microphone. I applied some ...

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