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* * 1/2 Sal Marquez, “One for Dewey,” GRP. The trumpeter sounds more like Miles Davis in this testimonial collection of Davis-associated songs than the jazz master himself probably could have in the last years of his life. Although there occasionally is a disturbingly deja vu quality to Marquez’s paralleling of Davis lines on songs like “If I Were a Bell,” “Solar” and “ ‘Round Midnight,” the trumpeter’s own considerable skills as a neo-bopper ultimately shine through.

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