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"Some jazz drummers are tough, all elbowing muscle; others, such as Matt Slocum, are seducers, entrancing through the power of finesse. The players who essay Slocum’s refined compositions on his new album, “With Love and Sadness”—the saxophonist Walter Smith III, the pianist Taylor Eigsti, and the bassist Larry Grenadier—similarly employ concentrated understatement to make their most persuasive points."