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Billy Childs/Buster Williams/Carl Allen: Skim Coat

by Ed Kopp
March 1, 2000

Skim Coat brings together three highly compatible players: Billy Childs (piano), Buster Williams (bass) and Carl Allen (drums). It’s a thoughtful but accessible modern jazz album--the perfect accompaniment to a pot of coffee and the Sunday newspaper.Metropolitan Records owner Stan Chovnick recruited this trio on the strength of its performance at a 1998 jazz educators conference in New York. A year later the educators were still buzzing about the band's appearance in the Big Apple, and it's easy ...