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Dan Waldman: Sources & Angles
BySources & Angles leans toward the smoother side of fusion, keeping it classy with the electricity mostly kept to Waldman's clean guitar tones. He's equally classy in the arrangements, where he spends as much time in a rhythm role as he does stepping in front. Will Vinson's sax seems at least as prominent; his melodicism fits the leader's ear-pleasing compositions like a good-fitting suit, and if the contemporary jazzy moods are familiar ones, the performance doesn't lose any luster for it. Even at the slowest ebb through the lugubrious "Bowery & Patternation," they're carefully weaving a slow dance rather than simply drifting or dragging.
The dreaminess never goes away completely, even while "Planet Vulcan" glides into territory too party-like to be logical, and the ending "Beginning" turns up the juice most of all with dashes of echo and wah-wah. Waldman's quartet swings, banters and reliably charms through it all. If it is all a dream, it's one as sharp and suave as the city-wide melting pot from which it comes.
Track Listing
Back by Due Regards; Folk Song; Bowery & Patternation; Life Imitates Art; Planet Vulcan; End of Winter; Beginning.
Personnel
Album information
Title: Sources & Angles | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: Not on Label
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