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Alex Wintz Trio: Live To Tape
ByAll that, of course, don't mean a thing if it ain't got that superior level of musicianship and vibrant trio interplay between the leader and his cohorts, bassist Dave Baron and drummer Jimmy Macbride. But it does, beginning with the Wintz-penned "Idris" that opens the show with resonant and piquant single note runs in front of a bump and shuffle rhythm. It is a near-ten minute barnburner that serves as a prime example of how a guitar / bass / drums affair, drawing inspiration from Blue Note's heyday, should go down.
The sound is clean and warm, with the clarity of a post-rainstorm afternoon, after the wind has pushed the clouds away. "On A Summer Day," another Wintz composition, has a laid-back looseness/burning intensity dynamic that grooves into a Baron bass solobeautifully accompanied by Wintz and MacBridethat slips the sound into the cool zone.
The Herbie Hancock-penned "Textures," one of the three covers, takes on a tangy Latin tinge, and "What Me Worry" explores the ballad side of sound, in a gorgeous six minutes of mainstream rumination. "Cadeques" has an overall more delicate, more brooding articulation, and "I'm All Smiles," the closer, displays a lively assurance and optimism, the equality of input between the three instruments serving the music well, to wind up a set that was recorded in one day, live to tape, in the old school fashion, resulting in an immediacy and freshness that is...refreshing.
Track Listing
Idris; On a Summr Day; What Me Worry; Ely, MN; Cadeques; I'm All Smiles.
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Album information
Title: Live To Tape | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: Outside in Music
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