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Matt Wilson: As Wave Follows Wave

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1997

Never let it be said that drummer Matt Wilson lacks vision or world-class jazz contacts on his first album as a leader.

On As Wave Follows Wave, Wilson recalls his boyhood in rural Illinois with a series of twelve tunes (and even the solo drum cuts could be called “tunes") that are unified by the common theme and sounds of off-the-beaten-track Americana. Proving that you can take the boy out of the farm but that you can't take the farm ...