Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: not so good, not natural enough

MM is of course a talented bass guitar player, but i would put a 'bemol' on this album: it looks like the recording technique was as for a pop music, meaning nobody plays together, just hearing a background and adding a solo track. It sometimes looks closer to bass technique tricks (with, yes, real good sound) than to real 'together playing'. In spite of all the great players that joined MM to do this album, (Maceo Parker, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garret, Herbie Hancock, and many others... also Djavan...) I didn't catch the living presence of people in these arrangements and recordings with a kind of synthetic sugar-sound, making all musician too much faded and unpersonnal compared to their usual performance.