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...section that isn't quite so busy itself. In "So What," Shorter quotes liberally from Monk and other Miles tunes, using the fast pace of the composition to build continuity between sparsely connected phrases. At times, the result can be dynamic, as in Shorter's quoting of Monk's "Bemsha Swing" near the beginning of "So What;" in other places, Shorter's decisions seem arbitrary and his thinner, reedier sound falls short next to Roney's full bodied and equally intense lines...