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Peter Smith Quartet: Blue & Green
by Jerry D'Souza
The Peter Smith Quartet continues its involvement with Latin jazz on its third album. This time around the artists have pulled in Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk, which gives their vision wider scope. The quartet keeps the music stirring gently, making good use of the guitar and percussion to add the timbre, and the spring, to the groove. But they don’t sacrifice volume and depth either; and if there is no real tension, the harmonic scope ...
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