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"It reminded me of, and that's got to be good. Rhythm section has the right groove, too. Drummer made me think of. Hey, play that again. Yeah! He sounds like a piano player! You can keep changing keys all the time doing that. Sounds like something that was studied and figured out. And he can play it; you know what's happening with this one. Yeah, he was on a Bobby Timmons kick. He knows what's happening."
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