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hat would the 33-year-old Stan Tracey have made of ’s new trio album , his third for ECM? In contrast to Tracey’s deliberate (if unpredictable) style, Downes sounds as if he has freed his mind and allowed it to wander where it will. It’s not that simple, of course. Fragments of melody fanned by ★★★★★

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