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David Widelock Trio: Skating on the Sidewalk

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 2, 2009

Skating on the Sidewalk is a record where myriad disparate musically idiomatic journeys collide with dash and splash on the concrete of urban modernity. It is a musical journey that begins from so many directions --the spare blue sogginess of the Delta, multi-hued blue New Orleans, and blue and windy Chicago. There is also a trip and a sustained whirl in swinging New York and even the mysterious saudades of Brazil. All of this lands sliding, thumping, and grinding on ...