Sad story, marvelous music

I think Bob Belden's "Black Dahlia," Blue Note, is the recent equivalent of Stan's Kenton's "City of Glass". Forward-looking large-group jazz with classical elements that's powerful for much of its run but also makes crafty use of subtlety. The array of great musicians Belden used on this is incredible. Having read an excellent book about the Black Dahlia murder, I'll also say this piece is uncanny in the way it captures muscially the story's rhythms (at least as presented in the book I read). If this music had scored a movie, it would have won an Oscar.