NEW RELEASES : In Brief

*** 1/2 Brian Lynch, “In Process,” Ken Records. Recorded just a few days after the death of Art Blakey, in whose band Lynch had played, this album finds the trumpeter in the forward-looking yet hard-bop-rooted company of fellow Blakey alumni. The four Lynch originals offer encouraging evidence of his development as a composer, though his best solo work is heard on the standards “I Should Care” and “So in Love.”

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