Jazz Articles about Ray's Music Exchange

Ray's Music Exchange: Blue in the Face

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 13, 2005

It's generally considered bad writing to describe one thing in terms of something else that the reader may also need described. This may be considered bad writing, then, but I've gnawed for weeks on this Cincinnati quartet's second studio release, and fifth overall, and this is my best attempt at describing its sound.

Imagine yourself in a room with two CD players. One plays the horn-driven bop of a late-model Jazz Messengers and the other features the guitar-stoked ...