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Through the richly textured scores of noir classics and movie music from Michel Legrand, Duke Ellington & Johnny Mandel, guitarist Bob Sneider & vibist Joe Locke add their provocative originals and arrangements to spin a darkly romantic tale that swings and slithers with a moody élan. The top flight band with Tim Horner, Paul Hofman & Martin Wind in the rhythm section, saxophonist Grant Stewart & John Sneider on trumpet, immerses itself in the melancholy of Locke's arrangement on Laura, and in the title cut, his gorgeous lament for Ava Gardner, and captures a seductive swing on Ellington's Flirtbird from Anatomy of a Murder.