All in all, 'Essences Des Bois' is an album of contemporary mainstream jazz that offers a lot of very fine listening.
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Hayes has given readers a rousing thriller combined with an ecological sermon.
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A must for the cognoscenti. For the rest of us, it may turn us on to what we've been missing.
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Testimony to the continuing dynamism of the Parisian jazz scene.
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