Jazz Articles about Tumble

Tumble: Waves

by Don Phipps
January 16, 2020

One can certainly appreciate the effort made by the members of Tumble to carve out a niche on Wave in the expanding and ever-changing world of jazz music. That said, however, there is a bit of disappointment. It's not that the group can be faulted for poor musicianship, but the readings in general are uninspired and uneven and the arrangements problematic. Tumble is comprised of Bill Douglass on bass, Robert Heirendt on mbira (an African thumb piano), Sean ...