{"id":1008,"date":"2009-03-26T14:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2009-03-26T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:28:03","slug":"reviews-sxs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/reviews-sxs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews – SXS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSource: Philadelphia Daily News
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The increasingly great young Philly quartet… Their first studio recording shows the leaderless, collective unit maturing into a sprawling compositional style blurring the boundaries between composition and improvisation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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