Jazz Articles

Tom Graf: Grafitti

by Bridget A. Arnwine
June 21, 2010

There's a familiarity to the songs on composer Tom Graf's Grafitti, that makes the disc feel like an old favorite even though it goes from funk and cha-cha to bop and straight-ahead jazz. There's such an air of familiarity, in fact, that if Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane could hear Grafitti in heaven, they might jump right in play along. It's in the way some songs begin--little flourishes here, borrowed notes there--and in the way it feels like ...