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Daniel Barry: Red Fish Blue Fish

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2002

Seattle-based composer / trumpeter Daniel Barry, whom we first encountered in a big-band setting, leads a talented octet through its paces on Red Fish Blue Fish, which encompasses eleven of his colorful compositions / arrangements and one ("Chemo Receptor") by drummer Chris Monroe. This is bracing contemporary Jazz, shrewdly written for and dexterously performed by the group. Much of it is through-composed with solos arising naturally in context and never overshadowing the ensemble's orchestral purpose. That's not to downplay the ...