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Humidity
By Matt Wilson
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Thank You Billy Higgins; Swimming In The Trees; Cooperation; Free Willy; Wall
Shadows; Raga; Code Yellow; Humidity; Don't Blame Me; Our Delight; All My
Children; Beginning Of A Memory. (Total Time 55:03).
The Matt Wilson Quartet: Humidity
by Jack Bowers
The bane of any reviewer: clearly well-played music that scarcely moves him an inch. I’m sorry, but I simply haven’t the mental capacity, musical acumen or whatever it takes to appreciate Humidity, drummer Matt Wilson's fifth album for Palmetto Records, even though Wilson and his companions are first-class players who are giving it everything they have. ...
Matt Wilson Quartet: Humidity
by David A. Orthmann
An eclectic drummer, thinker, and bandleader, Matt Wilson shuns fixed stylistic boundaries. He’s endlessly curious and adventuresome, but invariably backs up imaginative leaps in conception and execution with solid musicianship and organizational skills. Humidity, Wilson’s fourth outing for Palmetto, finds his working quartet (plus violin, trumpet, and trombone on a few cuts) fully inhabiting every one ...
Matt Wilson: Humidity
by Riel Lazarus
When the Matt Wilson Quartet (MWQ) first formed in 1996, their goal was to establish a cohesive working unit that would eventually carve out a distinct musical identity. As many would readily attest, the MWQ have done just that - releasing a critically acclaimed CD (1999's Smile ), and establishing themselves as one of jazz music's ...
Matt Wilson Quartet: Humidity
by Jim Santella
Founded in 1996, the Matt Wilson Quartet took shape in order to explore new and interesting ways of expressing mainstream jazz. Without a piano or a guitar to provide obvious harmonic concepts, the band has to rely on its two saxophonists and bassist for overlaps that carry the mood. Consequently, the song list avoids too many ...
Matt Wilson Quartet: Humidity
by C. Michael Bailey
Drummer Matt Wilson’s Humidity is somewhat of a free affair. The recording is very much a drummer lead date, with angular, complex rhythms and harmonies, aggressive and assertive tempos, and pile and piles of smart composition. Wilson pays an obvious debt to the late Billy Higgins on the opener, which is essentially a trio between Wilson ...