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When one hears Michael Adkins for the first time, theres a certain shock, not just at the presence of a new voice but that such a musician might arrive fully formed. Theres something unexpected in the sheer weight of his sound and depths of meaning that impinge in his lines. It might be noted that Adkins presents himself here as a tenor saxophonist, without that usual leap to the soprano or something else, a movement almost expected of those setting out to play jazzs dominant horn. Now that suggests a player very deeply involved in the formation of his own voice, a preoccupation to which this session attests, even to a concern with an authentic sense of speech. Stuart Broomer....ARTISTS: Michael Adkins (tenor sax); Russ Lossing (piano); John Hebert (double bass); Paul Motian (drums)