Source: Philadelphia City PaperDec 20, 2006
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1. Dave Burrell: Momentum (High Two)
2004’s Expansion saw Burrell return to the studio for his first proper album as a leader in nearly 30 years, unleashing a high-energy flurry of pent-up invention. Taking a cue from the pianist’s score for the 1925 Oscar Micheaux silent Body and Soul, his follow-up is a more subdued, brooding affair. Burrell elaborates haunting melodies into bluesy swing and stabbing dissonance, engaging his DB3 trio (bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Guillermo E. Brown) in tense, shifting interplay.