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Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver - the blacksmiths, the flowers 2LP xxus cut at 45 RPM bySurely, these are among three of the biggest names in contemporary jazz at the moment? Gerald Cleaver and Brandon Lpez are a surefire rhythm section mark of quality on any album in the last decade or so. Here theyre joined by Fred Moten, the poet, theorist, and one of the most prominent jazz critics thinkers of this century. Collecting two performances at 411 Kent, Lpez and Cleaver build complex, taut rhythmic beds over which Moten positions a