“There aren't too many albums out there that can simultaneously evoke the chandeliered, satin-curtained ballrooms of 1940s Hollywood and the sparking mechanization of an automobile factory, but Weilheim, Germany's Tied & Tickled Trio have managed to make one. On *Observing Systems*, Duke Ellington travels back to the future, electric Miles discovers the glitch, and Gil Evans collides head-on with L”
