Jay Davis (drums, compositions); Mike Soper (trumpet, flugel); James Allsopp (tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet); Huw V Williams (bass)
An interesting debut album (as a leader) by award winning drummer and composer Jay Davis. Comprising of nine of Davis' originals compositions that cover a wide spectrum of relatively contemporary jazz, varying from the pastoral to the frantic, jazz sans frontières, approach.
As such, we are faced with moments of absolute beauty contrasting with sounds so ugly I'm reluctant to tag them as music. Still, as Monk discovered, ugly can be beautiful.
In between these two extremes there is excitement galore. The two horns stretching out both individually and in tandem with Davis ever present and pushing them forward without intruding and Williams keeping the harmonic lines flowing.
This isn't just music for today, it's also music for late yesterday, tomorrow and the day after that. Lance
P.S. Great title!
Release date is April 11. FACEBOOK.
Lexie's Song; Big Top; Bredon; Happy Man Finsbury Park; Gone Are the Days of Fresh Soap; The Way A.I. Am; Wonker; Do You Like Apples*; Goodnight (Chorale)
* No question mark!
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