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"John MacMurchy has put together an extremely enjoyable CD to showcase his woodwind artistry. "Product 58" contains nine songs, mostly MacMurchy originals, with a few standards, that give John a chance to stretch out and display his improvisational skills on tenor, alto and baritone sax, plus clarinet on the lovely " A Child Is Born". John has a beautiful tone on all the woodwinds and has great control of his improvised lines. He builds his solos and his ideas follow the flow of the rhythm section. I especially enjoyed the treatment of "Music of the Night", a tune that most jazz musicians would never touch, but John turns it into a jazz waltz and makes it part of the jazz vocabulary. All in all a very musical first outing from a talented musician." Pat La Barbera (November 20, 2002 "Product '58" CD
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